Ownership

[Gustavo Seabra]

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.
>
>
> Rich

Why would anyone *need* to use the GUI file browser in root mode? What I 
meant is that, when you try to use a tool that *requires* root access, 
it generally asks for the password.

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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
Chemistry Department
Kansas State University
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