will hill wrote:
>On 2003.09.02 12:45 Shannon Roddy wrote: > > >>I have someone here who has put Mandrake on his PC & Mac at home. The >>question he asked me is how to login as root. I do not use mandrake and >>I assume he is talking about logging in in a graphical mode. ie.. run >>level 5. I assume mandrake gives you a list of available user names? >> Seems cheesy to me, but that is my opinion. >> >>Anyway, I do not use Mandrake, so I do not know. Also, I did not go >>into the lecture of "you should not log in as root, use su or sudo...." >> >>I know some of the folks on here use Mandrake, so any help would be >>appreciated. >> >>Thanks, >>Shannon >> >> > >I don't use Mandrake, but can understand the need to log in a GUI as root. >Some of the expected tools, like adduser, are hard to find and use in Red Hat >8 and the GUI tools are good at configuring printers and stuff like that. Red >Hat's GUI print configurator changes all the KDE and Gnome stuff at the same >time with a few click and drool mouse movements. It's impressive and >worthwhile enought to do it that way once and be done with it. > > In Redhat 9, it prompts you for the root password when you run them as a normal user. Shannon > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
