terry wrote: > was asked for root password at the beginning of install. did so. root > password works inside a terminal as needed. d/l and install open office > from their website. during install of oo i am asked for root password. > the popup disappears when i click on ok. and i cannot put in password > for root anywhere. when i tried to log in as root my password is not > authenticated. how can i become root everywhere than just in a terminal > box. this is private computer not used by anyone else. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_Root_User_For_GNOME_Display_Manager Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines