On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Bassel Safadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On a new fedora 9 install the other day, I was running as root and clicked >> on the livna repo rpm link on the livna web pages and when the box came >> up, I clicked on "Go ahead and install this sucker". >> >> Then firefox (or someone, anyway) said "Oh no, you don't have permission >> to install rpms, I can't do that." >> >> AARGH! >> >> "What do you want for Christmas kid?" >> >> "I want to install a genuine Red Ryder rpm directly from firefox as root!" >> >> "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" >> >> So just how many idiotic undocumented layers of "helpful" security >> software >> do I have to figure out how to use merely to have root permissions when >> running as root? >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@redhat.com >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> > > > ok it's simple > just open your terminal, then type: > su - > then enter the root's password > after that type: > firefox > that will fire up firefox by root so now you can do what ever you want from > firefox, but note that anything you'll be doing with firefox will be done as > a root user, so if you did some thing wrong things will go bad, but that > what I do in your case... just be carfull... > sorry I did not noticed that you are all ready root, try it after login as a normal user :-)
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