On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,<hewjr1000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> How do I make myself root in the GUI > > Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are > you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for > root authentication if necessary or you can su (or sudo) to root in a > terminal session or login as root in a virtual terminal. One scenario is when the normal users are all defined over nis/nfs, and the network is down, but you need to log in to fix things... To fix things in a scenario like that, I boot into runlevel 3 (by temporarily appending "3" to the end of the kernel line in grub), login as root, and run "startx" to get a gui session for root. - Mike -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
