On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:48, Benedict Verheyen wrote: [snip] > I think that a lot of users tend to switch to using root because they > cannot achieve simple tasks with their "normal" user. For instance > writing cd's. It would help if there is a doc that explains how users
You mentioned sudo. Paul Johnson mentioned 'su -m'. This works *great* is you want to have an xterm window logged in as root, and run a GUI app from it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time." Bertrand Meyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
