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