[ale] FC13 question

[Scott McBrien]

What William said, also:

>From a root su'ed session you can run system-config-Whatever, if you don't remember the name of the tool, system-config-<tab><tab> will print the list of those installed.

Also there is a 10 or 15 minute timer that turns on after you authenticate to one of the tools.  IIRC it's a pam library that creates the timer through a timestamp.  You might consider lengthening the timeout.

-Scott

On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:13 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:

> http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2010/04/23/login-as-a-root-from-gui-fedora-13/
> 
> Did this a couple of days ago.
> 
> Use at your own risk, owner assumes all liabilites, etc. etc.
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> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 17:32 -0400, Drifter wrote:
>> There are times when I need to to things as root that are -- for me -- 
>> much easier to do using the GUI aps rather than the command line.
>> Years ago on a Red Hat install, root actually had a directory in /home and 
>> I could log into the system as root and have the GUI.
>> 
>> This FC13 install doesn't provide that feature. I can create, as root, a 
>> directory in /home. That's easy enough.  But what do I have to do so that 
>> I can log in as root directly just as I log into my regular user account?
>> If I try to log in as root now, the system just laughs at me.
>> 
>> Clearly I am missing several steps in the process.
>> 
>> Sean
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