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Re: How do I make my normal account (not root) have administrative (root) privileges?



On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:51:40 -0600
"Brendan West" <extremeskateboarding@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I make my normal account (not root) have administrative (root)
> privileges?  I thought that it was set up like that already, but I am
> unable to start some programs under my normal account.  And for some
> reason, I can't log onto the desktop gui as root.  Any ideas?

You shouldn't give your regular account root privileges, and you
shouldn't log into the DE as root.  Use sudo for tasks requiring root
privileges, or su into root.

> NinjaNife

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