On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > I am using Gnome as my desktop. > > > > The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager > > > > super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, > > > > <snip> > > > > James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root > > password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? > > Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask > > him that's my problem. > > > > Anne > > Anne, > File Manager Super User Mode doesn't ask and DOESN'T put you into > su mode in Gnome, though it does both in KDE, at least on my 9.1 > installation. Dunno why. It's not a question of having logged in as > root. I've made a note of this in one of the TWiki entries > somewhere. > > DougB
That's incredible! There isn't much point in it, in that case. I wonder if he would be prepared to stick to kde until he has things up and running and explore other dms later. I'll suggest it to him. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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