Jim K
Alan Crandall wrote:
At 07:14 AM 7/30/2004, Jamie wrote:
well... you shouldnt run as root(admin) if you can do something as a user,
however sometimes you need to be root.
That was the reason for info.As I am new to Linux,some installers require certain install paths that require root permissions.Sure I can /bin su but term has limits for me at this learning curve
Alan, It sounds like you use a gui to login (kdm or gdm?) I think you can
still login as root, but your login manager is configured to not display a
root user. all you have to do is type in root, then password for root to
login as root.
Gui to login/kdm.So the next time I login, instead of typing my password as that user just type root and then it will ask for roots password?
Alternatively, if you just want to run one app as root, you can also do (in a
shell):
su -c /opt/kde/bin/kwrite
and it will open kwrite as root user, while in userland gui.
Thanks! and as a side note,I got crossover working and went to install a modplayer but would only install to Opera,which I have installed,but I can not find in any dir.Have not tried looking in the roots dir yet but that would not make sense to me as that dir is not a shared dir ?
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