Root Privelages

[cornel panceac]

2008/11/24 Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>

> Answer to POC
>
> Running su and getting a root shell does not give you root in the GUI.
>
> This, the ability to mark files for deletion, copy, or changing of
> properties becomes a tedious chore in command line mode.
>
> Without GUI for root, I am afraid I will revert from F10 back to F9. It is
> for that same reason that I do not standardize on the other linux
> distribution that begins with U


you can always start nautilus or whatever gui you like, from root terminal.
( which, of course, is not exactly a fix :) )

>
>
> --- On *Wed, 11/19/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Root Privelages
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:58 AM
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote:
> > Is there any way to gain
>  root access in GNOME to do things that require
> root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without:
> > 	su - sudo su -
> >
> > Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that
> prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I
> can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes away,
> making copying a large number of files very difficult.  In Fedora 9 you could
> log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but you could choose
> to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore?
>
> Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell?
>
> poc
>
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