[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 15:41:46 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Try "su -" instead of "sudo su".

I think the big problem here is going to be that X11 doesn't give a
darn about Linux privileges; X authentication handshaking needs to
happen.

I haven't mastered the manual side of that art myself, so, for now, I
use programs like gksudo to handle it for me.

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