Root is blocked from using X directly for security reasons. All the gui config tools that require root will prompt for root password to do their magic.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Drifter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">There are times when I need to to things as root that are -- for me --<br>
much easier to do using the GUI aps rather than the command line.<br>
Years ago on a Red Hat install, root actually had a directory in /home and<br>
I could log into the system as root and have the GUI.<br>
<br>
This FC13 install doesn't provide that feature. I can create, as root, a<br>
directory in /home. That's easy enough. But what do I have to do so that<br>
I can log in as root directly just as I log into my regular user account?<br>
If I try to log in as root now, the system just laughs at me.<br>
<br>
Clearly I am missing several steps in the process.<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
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