On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,hewjr1000@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.
One scenario is when the normal users are all defined over nis/nfs, and the network is down, but you need to log in to fix things...
To fix things in a scenario like that, I boot into runlevel 3 (by temporarily appending "3" to the end of the kernel line in grub), login as root, and run "startx" to get a gui session for root.
- Mike