On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:05 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
When you are attempting to debug why drivers and such are not
working,
being root saves time which is saving money. Once things work, then I go
back to 'normal'.
Yes, I often open a terminal window and su, and then 'nautilus &', but
that has given me wierd behaviour. And then I want to sftp some root
files over, gFTP is nice. Most things can be done without being root,
and take a few hours more. I am not an expert at this stuff. My job is
to work on security protocols, not OSs.
I haven't checked, but perhaps one of the other display managers (such
as kdm or xdm) may allow you to login as root?
-Chris