root acount by default WITHOUT password

[Jaime Pérez]

If I press Ctrl Alt T a new root terminal is opened without asking for password.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-6.23-lowlatency 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-6-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 3 21:45:30 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-17 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-27 (7 days ago)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

How do you know it's a root terminal?
Are you running your session as root?

Could you paste the output of "id" in that terminal?

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

root@jaime-MS-7640:~#

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

I'm running common X session with my user login. I will check if I have admin rights or is a id issue

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

Yes, I have admin rights:

root@jaime-MS-7640:~# cd /etc/X11/
root@jaime-MS-7640:/etc/X11# ls
app-defaults X Xreset xsm
core xinit Xreset.d XvMCConfig
cursors xkb Xresources Xwrapper.config
default-display-manager xorg.conf Xsession
fonts xorg.conf.fglrx-0 Xsession.d
rgb.txt xorg.conf.fglrx-1 Xsession.options
root@jaime-MS-7640:/etc/X11# mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.1
root@jaime-MS-7640:/etc/X11# mv xorg.conf.1 xorg.conf
root@jaime-MS-7640:/etc/X11#

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

I can't "Print Screen" due to another bug.

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

By the way, I just seen terminal was upgraded 7 days ago, but I got this error today, so perhaps is some package upgraded today. I have activated proposal upgrades.

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

Ah another thing: If I press steam Icon it says: Cannot open as root. So it seems that i'm in a root session, but I used my normal account and passwd.

[Jaime Pérez (jaime-91)]

I think I have reached the problem. I'm having problems with unity: my mouse pointer fade out and I can't see it. So I run "sudo unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity" in a terminal, which fix this issue. Perhaps it reloaded unity as root user, because I used sudo.