Time to seek help from the experts!!!!

[submarine]

Hello to the Linux fundis - I am fairly new to this, set up my first, 2 weeks now - Linux workstation (suse 10.3) - mail & able to browse internet comfortably. Using said PC now.
So, just today I just got to the section in YAST where you configure updates, set it configure automatically (was wondering about that - being old win user and all, you tend to notice tons of updates). Anyway I got stuck onto this section looking at security and made some change, where I changed the security level to paranoid ( I am paranoid about security). I set a time for the updates, when the time came, nothing happened, tried to go back into yast - but now cannot get into - error KDE Su returned with error!
How can I rectify the situation? Please understand I am not very Linux wise (as proved already), 52 years old, so not very quick, but will be be able to follow some basic instructions - ANYBODY, Please Help!

 

[Drake2007]

You can try logout KDE then login as root and set the paranoid setting in Yast back to what it was.

 

[submarine]

Now, don't be so modest - I am sure you know more than me. I have tried that - cannot log into root for some reason (although I have the password written down on my screen)
Since setting up the system - I have not logged in as root or used it after I set up my current user. If I restart the system on my login screen I only have the current user displayed there. If I try & log in as root with root password, message comes up with root not allowed to log in here.

 

[ponder]

If I try & log in as root with root password, message comes up with root not allowed to log in here.

Don't start Xorg/KDE, you will be able to login with root via the CLI.

Need to switch to run level 3. Must be a way to do it via the kernel boot options in grub by pressing 'e' for edit.

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ro quiet splash [B][COLOR="Red"]text[/COLOR][/B]

Just add text to the end of the line.

This will give you acces to your system to fix things.

 

[froot]

To log in as root you need to allow the system to do so. With KDE you have to edit a text file. With Gnome you can do it from a GUI.
/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc <== the location of the file. Halfway through the file there is a piece of code

AllowRootLogin=[b]true[/b]

<== alter it so that it says this.
Then you need to reboot. Then you can login as root.