Temporary Root Authroization For Gnome

[Scott Simontis]

At the command line, type in "su -" without the quotes. You then enter your root
password, and you are given root privelages.

Scott Simontis

On Fri Feb 25 16:16 , 'Michael E. Crute' <mcrute_mailinglist at softgroupcorp.com> sent:

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>Is there a way that as my normal user (crute.michael) I can authorize
>Gnome as root. What I am talking about is something like running system
>tools as a regular user, you put in your root password and you can run
>the tool but when the tool shuts down if "forgets" that authorization.
>I would like to be able to do this with Gnome so that the file manager
>can run as root until I tell it to "forget the user authorization".
>Right now I have two alternatives, log in to Gnome as root or use a
>command prompt neither of which I want to do. Does anyone know how to
>do this?
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>-Mike
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>Michael
>E. Crute
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>SoftGroup Development Corporation
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