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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/20/2013 10:03 AM, Patrick
O'Callaghan wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:38 AM,
Robert Moskowitz <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>You mean like lowering inittab to 3, logging in as
root, then running startx so you can get the full root
gui experience?<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">No, I mean logging into the desktop as
root rather than as a normal user. This is generally frowned
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Isn't this pretty much the same? Once you lower inittab to 3, there
is no problem logging in as root. startx then gives you your root
gui.<br>
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What am I missing. <br>
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BTW, I use to do this until I finally buckled down and got decent at
doing what I needed in a su terminal session. And I DO use vi a
lot. I have been using it since '93 and never graduated to emacs;
still have my original O'Reilly vi book.<br>
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