Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

Mark Perew wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: With just an editor like VI? I went to System>Administer>'Users and Groups' and went to the Groups tab. Wheel is NOT listed there. When you have User Manager open, go to Edit ->

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:53 +, Dave Cross wrote: > Steps I always take on a new Fedora box to make my life easier. > > 1/ "su -" to become root. In fact a simple "su" will do here. You're just editing a couple of files. > 2/ "visudo" to edit the sudoers file. > 3/ Uncomment the first line re

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > OK.  So I enable group wheel with visudo.  Then I look into adding me to the > group. > > I see the following files in /etc that have group wheel: group, group-, > gshadow, and gshadow- > > You only said to add to group. Yep. That's what I do. Just /etc/group. > W

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > With just an editor like VI? I went to System>Administer>'Users and > Groups' and went to the Groups tab. Wheel is NOT listed there. When you have User Manager open, go to Edit -> Preferences and uncheck the box that says "Hide System

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

Dave Cross wrote: 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : Dave Cross wrote: 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : At times I find I need to login as root. You really don't. For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that terminal session. Look at all th

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > Dave Cross wrote: >> >> 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : >> >>> >>> At times I find I need to login as root. >>> >> >> You really don't. >> >>> For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that >>> terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

Dave Cross wrote: 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : At times I find I need to login as root. You really don't. For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in FC10, I could still change prefere

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > At times I find I need to login as root. You really don't. > For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that > terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.  And at least in FC10, > I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they al

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At times I find I need to login as root. > > For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that > terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in > FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up > grey. There

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

On Friday 30 October 2009 10:31:49 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At times I find I need to login as root. > > For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that > terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in > FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC

FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

At times I find I need to login as root. For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up grey. There are other things in gnome that