Temporary Root Authroization For Gnome

[Deron Meranda]

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

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:21:51 -0700, Scott Simontis <ssimontis at spymac.com> wrote:
> At the command line, type in "su -" without the quotes. You then enter your root
> password, and you are given root privelages.

And once at the "#" prompt, type

  nautilus

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Deron Meranda