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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
