On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote: > Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without: > su - sudo su - > > Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes away, making copying a large number of files very difficult. In Fedora 9 you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore? Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell? poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
