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Re: Help - Gnome won't rune



On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:23:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> You should *never* need to have a full-fledged "root" GUI!
> 
> 90% of root stuff can be done from an xterm with "su -".  The 
> another 9.9% is privileged GUI work that will prompt you for the 
> root password.  The last 0.1% (privleged GUI apps that don't prompt 
> you for a password) can be run from your account from an xterm using 
> "su -p".
> 
Another good package to help with this is sux.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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