[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> Well after all my trials with getting my new Lenovo x120e running I've
> ended up with Fedora 15, which seems to be working nicely.
>
> One problem tho: I'm used to opening gedit from the command line root
> prompt so I can edit root-permission files (don't use vi often enough to
> remember the commands). But Fedora 15 won't let me do that.
>
> "
> [root at localhost eric]# gedit
>
> (gedit:20435): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
> manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
>
> g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error:
> Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read
> (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
> Terminated
> "
>
> No problem, I thought. I'll just log in as root. But Fedora 15 won't let
> me do that either. I keep getting "authentication failed" when I try to
> do that.
>
> So what's a guy to do? In the time I lost figuring this all out I could
> have dug out a vi cheat sheet and done what I needed to do. But I don't
> want to do that each time I need to edit a root-owned document.
>
> Thanks.

Run gedit (or xterm, or whatever) from your normal user, appended to a
program like gksudo.

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