On 12/20/2013 10:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:

You mean like lowering inittab to 3, logging in as root, then running startx so you can get the full root gui experience?

No, I mean logging into the desktop as root rather than as a normal user. This is generally frowned on.

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.

What am I missing.

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.