On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:15, will hill wrote: > > 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. >
With Red Hat Linux, there's still no need to log into an X desktop as root. The GUI system configuration utilities will ask for the root password when you open them as a regular user. Or, you can always run them from a shell prompt after doing an 'su' or 'sudo'. -Tim
