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Re: root login



On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 16:58, Michael Toomim wrote:
--snip--
> It's much easier conceptually, at this point, to log in as root from gdm 
> and use the menu to launch the configuration tool of your choice than to 
> learn how to open a shell as a normal user, run su, and type in the 
> command-line versions of the programs in their gnome foot menu.

Have you looked at some of the system tools for Gnome 2?
(gnome-system-tools, shows up in, Applications/Desktop
Preferences/System Tools) That's a solution that I like. Have the tools
availabe to the user, but if he wants to actually change something, ask
for the root password.

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