Re: Root with GUI

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On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:24 -0500, 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.
> 
> Richard

I suspect that he wants to execute a privileged operation from the GUI,
not that he wants to run the GUI from root, though the question is
unclear.

poc

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