[ale] FC13 question

[William Fragakis]

http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2010/04/23/login-as-a-root-from-gui-fedora-13/

Did this a couple of days ago.

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On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 17:32 -0400, Drifter wrote:
> There are times when I need to to things as root that are -- for me -- 
> much easier to do using the GUI aps rather than the command line.
> Years ago on a Red Hat install, root actually had a directory in /home and 
> I could log into the system as root and have the GUI.
> 
> This FC13 install doesn't provide that feature. I can create, as root, a 
> directory in /home. That's easy enough.  But what do I have to do so that 
> I can log in as root directly just as I log into my regular user account?
> If I try to log in as root now, the system just laughs at me.
> 
> Clearly I am missing several steps in the process.
> 
> Sean
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