will hill wrote:

>On 2003.09.02 12:45 Shannon Roddy wrote:
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>>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
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>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.
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>

In Redhat 9, it prompts you for the root password when you run them as a 
normal user.

Shannon

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