On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 21:45 -0800, Rich Burroughs wrote: > Gustavo Seabra wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I've seen repeatedly in this list the advice to > > *not* login as root from the login screen. If any GUI tools need the > > root access, they generally ask for the root password, or there is a way > > to change to "administrator mode". > > I don't know of a way with the default GNOME file browser in Fedora that > you can switch to have root access. Perhaps there is one. why not open a console, run su -r then call your file manager from the command line?