Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I don't do it often, but the usual reason is not remembering or not
> being able to figure out how to do some kind of configuration in bash
> that Mandrake provides GUI tools to do easily. I've never figured out
> the ramifications of doing su in a normal login to do such things, so I
> just don't.
FWIW, I've found that the ramification for bringing up most of the
Mandrake configuration tools (for example, Mandrake Control Center started
either via the K menu or by typing "drakconf" from a shell window) from a
non-privileged shell is that you get prompted to enter the root password
before it continues. :-)
--Dave
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