Paul Davies wrote: >ssh does allows me to log in as root. When I enable X forwarding I am >also able to run gedit over the network remotely. Now I am happy.
Login as a normal user and then type: su - to become root. su = Switch User See man su for more details. Also take a look at sudo. If you are going to have to do something as root often, you can login as a normal user and when you need to run something as root type: sudo <program> This will then ask for the users password (not root) unless you've already given it to sudo within a certain period. Ofcoarse, what a user can do etc. is configured via /etc/sudoers (use visudo to edit it) man sudo for more info, else I beleive MandrakeSecure (or something) has a fairly good guide to setting sudo up. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
