linux n00b Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 A situation I've run into is that I login as my regular user, but then need to install some stuff like a webapp and my web-folder is only accessible by root and so I have to move and rename things in the command prompt and that takes longer than i like, so is there a way I can login as root for the GUI temporarily so I can move/rename/delete stuff fast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 See this topic. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux n00b Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 (edited) I read that and was wondering will that work with GNOME? Edited June 28, 2006 by linux n00b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 Not really. :) If you look at the properties for Nautilus on the taskbar (right click on the icon?), you may be able to set up something similar to the kdesu shortcut using gnomesu, but it's not installed by default. If a Gnome user doesn't step in to help, I'll check it out when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 I can't get it to work with gnomesu - it seems to work differently from when I tried in in 10.1. :sad: Hopefully, a Gnome user will put us out of our misery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 You can type " su -c 'nautilus" in terminal - that will open a nautilus window as a root. Is that what you asking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 I second ilia_kr, if all that you need is just to move files around and execute them as root, launch nautilus from the terminal as root, you don't need a seperate X session devoted to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Why not a root Midnight Commander? It does eveything, even without X running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 I use gksu to open nautilus from my administrator-users desktop, it's no big deal, install gksu (it's in the contribs-section afaik) and put a desktop or menu-entry somewhere with [gksu nautilus], you can even start konqueror filemanager from there with [gksu "konqueror -profile filemanagement"], there is an app called gksuexec which is part of the gksu-package, it will open a dialog, that asks you what program you want to be started and under which user it should run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 If you use kdm to login you can also set the following variable to true AllowRootLogin=true in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux n00b Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 You can type " su -c 'nautilus" in terminal - that will open a nautilus window as a root. Is that what you asking for? that method sounds the best to me (last thing I want to do is have to install stuff, something always goes wrong when i do) thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 No problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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