Root previleges error while accessing administrative settings

Linux Mint
#1

Morning everyone

I have a problem on Linux mint 17.3 while accessing administrative setting such as network settings manager: here am trying to access network manager:

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and other disk partitions as below: here am trying to access partition called Data on my machine:

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I am currently logged in as the default user with which i installed Linux mint 17.3 on my machine. This error was not originally and i would like to know how i can disable this permanently so that i do not get the provide root password interface.

#2

According to may view it is not possible to get rid of root password when you logged-in as a normal user. You should enter the root password to perform those actions.

#3

@raghuu

The problem was not there at first, it just started yesterday. Okay how can i enable root login on Linux MInt?

#4

Actually root account is created by default while installing the OS try to switch to root and check you are able to login as root or not.