[ale] FC13 question

[Tom Freeman]

As pointed out elsewhere, just about everything has the potiential to 
cause harm when run as root.

#rm -Rf /

will perform a wonderful lobatomy as root 8-)



On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Drifter wrote:

> Thanks, this seems to work.
> But you have to admire the warning label that pops up before the GUI
> actually appears on the screen:
>
> "You are currently trying to run as Root super user. The superuser is a
> specialized account that is not designed to run a normal user session.
> Various programs will not function properly and actions performed under
> this account can cause unrecoverable damage to the operating system."
>
> No hint, of course, as to what sorts of programs can cause the damage.
>
> Sean
>
> On Friday, July 30, 2010 06:13:33 pm William Fragakis wrote:
>> http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2010/04/23/login-as-a-root-from-gui-fed
>> ora-13/
>>
>> Did this a couple of days ago.
>>
>> Use at your own risk, owner assumes all liabilites, etc. etc.
>>
>> 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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