From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 15:08:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261E416A41A for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C8113C455 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:08:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1128752pyb for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=gnQ0PM1aV3EBdG2CDpIHMVr3j9GE4GtfZyHk8XrIfKg=; b=cSNrwiqNWZH74YXWdfKxFnW8NbR3j6VyFDpwdeDyBV6a5RQgt63QlttMglDNJgFE5ylmgCxF6N6+TcWXgr9g1wvociTbtXgGOdij2cYAeW175AK9xzIHsRr7OTmwfiaSQJBgWboEvEjuICfqsse1ppMXFUCrhLakfrXjx22fFEA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E5k8LdMJ5soocEny558sVhYywq0m+kAIJcz6UOsPVRSBsq4EH+XN4oEi74lrPPPIg4f1X+92mF3Gd9BLyxsW+V3cuuJBDo6hbSKYrSQBFOnoJHxR1X3CIgOVnl3O3esB9Ur3R464uPJAdY07u88xMyKeyriqtsVv7CkkRTlD5G0= Received: by 10.65.74.9 with SMTP id b9mr4254080qbl.1192115337619; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.105.2 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:08:57 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: bh@izb.knu.ac.kr In-Reply-To: <1192114944.8383.30.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <470E0667.7080000@yahoo.com> <1192114944.8383.30.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:08:59 -0000 > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't with one. If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the following (I am assuming your using tcsh... if your using something else look up how to do this): in ~/.cshrc add: xhost + in /root/.cshr add: setenv DISPLAY :0 When you su *ALWAYS* use the following syntax: su - *DO NOT* include any cmd arguement. Once your root you should be able to start any GUI based app from the command line... if you don't know what the command line is left click on the menu/icon and go to properties... if it requires arguements look it up in the man page or the GNOME help for it.