> On Fri Feb 25 16:16 , 'Michael E. Crute' <mcrute_mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent: > >Is there a way that as my normal user (crute.michael) I can authorize > >Gnome as root. What I am talking about is something like running system > >tools as a regular user, you put in your root password and you can run > >the tool but when the tool shuts down if "forgets" that authorization. > >I would like to be able to do this with Gnome so that the file manager > >can run as root until I tell it to "forget the user authorization". On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:21:51 -0700, Scott Simontis <ssimontis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At the command line, type in "su -" without the quotes. You then enter your root > password, and you are given root privelages. And once at the "#" prompt, type nautilus -- Deron Meranda
