[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

[Kyle]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org>
>Sent: Sep 22, 2011 2:48 PM
>To: grlug at grlug.org
>Subject: [GRLUG] root on Fedora 15
>
>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.
>
>
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Try "su -" instead of "sudo su".

- Kyle

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