Re: trying to understand SELinux message

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On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:02:05 Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:21 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> > I'm old-school Unix where the only way some things could be fixed was
> > to su to root and it was just easier for big tasks to log in as root.
> 
> As has been pointed out, it's rarely necessary.  There's one area where
> I a graphical root user is useful, mass file managing where you can't
> use wild cards to do the job.  But you don't need to log in graphically
> as root to do these things.  Find a decent file manager, not Nautilus,
> then just start it off from the command line.

I use krusader for file management (two-panel, midnight-commander-like 
style...). It has a "run as root" option somewhere in the menus, if I really 
need root privileges. However, I don't remember when was the last time I 
needed them. :-)

Best, :-)
Marko

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