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