let root be root?

[Bassel Safadi]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Bassel Safadi <bassel.safadi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
>
>> On a new fedora 9 install the other day, I was running as root and clicked
>> on the livna repo rpm link on the livna web pages and when the box came
>> up, I clicked on "Go ahead and install this sucker".
>>
>> Then firefox (or someone, anyway) said "Oh no, you don't have permission
>> to install rpms, I can't do that."
>>
>> AARGH!
>>
>> "What do you want for Christmas kid?"
>>
>> "I want to install a genuine Red Ryder rpm directly from firefox as root!"
>>
>> "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
>>
>> So just how many idiotic undocumented layers of "helpful" security
>> software
>> do I have to figure out how to use merely to have root permissions when
>> running as root?
>>
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>
>
> ok it's simple
> just open your terminal, then type:
> su -
> then enter the root's password
> after that type:
> firefox
> that will fire up firefox by root so now you can do what ever you want from
> firefox, but note that anything you'll be doing with firefox will be done as
> a root user, so if you did some thing wrong things will go bad, but that
> what I do in your case... just be carfull...
>

sorry I did not noticed that you are all ready root, try it after login as a
normal user :-)
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