<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Answer to POC Running su and getting a root shell does not give you root in the GUI. This, the ability to mark files for deletion, copy, or changing of properties becomes a tedious chore in command line mode. Without GUI for root, I am afraid I will revert from F10 back to F9. It is for that same reason that I do not standardize on the other linux distribution that begins with U --- On Wed, 11/19/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Root Privelages To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:58 AM <pre>On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote: > Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without: > su - sudo su - > > Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes away, making copying a large number of files very difficult. In Fedora 9 you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore? Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell? poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list </pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>