[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> -----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
>
>
What does that do?

   -- Bob

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