Ownership

Thu Dec 23 05:59:08 UTC 2004

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 21:45 -0800, Rich Burroughs wrote:
> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> > I may be wrong, but I've seen repeatedly in this list the advice to 
> > *not* login as root from the login screen. If any GUI tools need the 
> > root access, they generally ask for the root password, or there is a way 
> > to change to "administrator mode".
> 
> I don't know of a way with the default GNOME file browser in Fedora that 
> you can switch to have root access. Perhaps there is one.

why not open a console, run su -r then call your file manager from the
command line?