[ale] FC13 question

[William Fragakis]

Nautilus, for one ;-)

GParted can do some interesting things, too, I'd gather but I've never
tried (to do "interesting things"). Gedit can make your day exciting as
well. Personally, I can easily do as much damage from the CLI if not
more.  

I do find it easy sometimes to actually have a root Desktop although, on
this esteemed list, I'm probably in a distinct minority.

If something bad happens, I was never here.
regards,
William

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 18:49 -0400, Drifter wrote:
> Thanks, this seems to work.
> But you have to admire the warning label that pops up before the GUI 
> actually appears on the screen:
> 
> "You are currently trying to run as Root super user. The superuser is a 
> specialized account that is not designed to run a normal user session. 
> Various programs will not function properly and actions performed under 
> this account can cause unrecoverable damage to the operating system."
> 
> No hint, of course, as to what sorts of programs can cause the damage.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Friday, July 30, 2010 06:13:33 pm William Fragakis wrote:
> > http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2010/04/23/login-as-a-root-from-gui-fed
> > ora-13/
> > 
> > Did this a couple of days ago.
> > 
> > Use at your own risk, owner assumes all liabilites, etc. etc.
> > 
> > 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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