[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:12 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

That seems to have worked. (Use su - to switch to root and then call
'gedit'. Some subtle diff between 'su' and 'su -', but I don't remember
what it is.

Neither 'gksudo' nor 'gksu' are recognized as commands by Fedora 15. Is
that just a Ubuntu thing?




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