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Re: [opensuse] login question.
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:16:48 -0400
  • Message-id: <20070716191648.GT7622@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Giorgos <giorgos67@xxxxxxxxx> [07-16-07 14:30]:
> 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.

in an xterm window,
  ssh root@localhost -X
  
root's pwd will be requested.

you are now in a root shell with access to all X pgms.

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