On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:26:57 +0300
"Giorgos"
Hi! :-)
Does someone know, how can I login as su (root)? I'm autologging in as normal user, and when I have to do administrative tasks (eg. configuring with yast), opensuse asking me, my pwd.
These days, I have to install some devices and their drivers, so I have to copy-paste files to restrictive directories. Not surprisingly, those options (eg. pasting files) are greyed-out and not functional. However, working with bash is always available. Once I'm giving my pwd (and returning to # mode), I can complete my work without any problems or pwd reconfirmations. I'm just wondering if there is a similar way, for working with graphical shell (either with Gnome (which I'm using) or any other), for copy-pasting. I had to do so much keyboarding from the DOS era! :-)
Additionally you can configure Sudo to allow you to become root without
requiring a password. Examples are in /etc/sudoers. To edit this file,
su to root, and use the visudo command.
Note that the command to get a root shell from sudo is:
'sudo -s -H'
You should always be able to log in as root locally either in the
command line or the GUI.
To access a command line login (virtual terminal), from the GUI press
ctrl-alt-F1 (or actually F1 through F6).
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Jerry Feldman