On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:05 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > When you are attempting to debug why drivers and such are not working, > being root saves time which is saving money. Once things work, then I go > back to 'normal'. > > Yes, I often open a terminal window and su, and then 'nautilus &', but > that has given me wierd behaviour. And then I want to sftp some root > files over, gFTP is nice. Most things can be done without being root, > and take a few hours more. I am not an expert at this stuff. My job is > to work on security protocols, not OSs.
I haven't checked, but perhaps one of the other display managers (such as kdm or xdm) may allow you to login as root? -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
