Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1632 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Giorgos wrote:
> 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! :-)
>
> THANKS!!!
> Giorgos. :-)
With KDE, you can configure the menu to require logging in as another 
user.  Just select root.  Another way, is to become root, using "sux -" 
and then starting the desired app from the command line.


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