Root with GUI
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 12:49:25 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:24 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM, <hewjr1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do I make myself root in the GUI
>
> Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are
> you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for
> root authentication if necessary or you can su (or sudo) to root in a
> terminal session or login as root in a virtual terminal.
>
> Richard
I suspect that he wants to execute a privileged operation from the GUI,
not that he wants to run the GUI from root, though the question is
unclear.
poc
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