On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:09 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 23:43 schrieb Brant Fitzsimmons: > > Bill Mullen wrote: > > >On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > >>Felix Miata wrote: > > >>>Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell > > >>>mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. > > >> > > >>As far as I know there is no way to do so. This was the subject of > > >> very heated discussions during 9.0 development. > > > > > >It *can* be done, and fairly easily, as well. > > > > > >The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full X > > > session as root?" ... > > > > Because they want the convenience of full access to all files as with a > > console prompt running as root without the need to know how to use the > > command line. > > Bad reason under K-menu => applications => file tools or whatever it is > called in english you can start konqueror in root-modus. The mandrake-tools > can be accessed to from a normal login in various ways.
>There is no reason to start X as root. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Steffen Phooy ! ! ! I like single click mouse action and have yet to find a way to get itn the root file manager short of logging in as root and changing it in Kcontrol center. There is NO administrative mode in the mouse section,sooooo, you can only change for the immidiate user. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho
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