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From: rdd@wuphys.wustl.edu (Rakhal D. Dave)
Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rdd@wuphys.UUCP (Rakhal D. Dave)
Organization: Physics Dept, Washington U. in St Louis
References: <1991Apr28.083232.12277@cbnewse.att.com> <591@rosie.NeXT.COM>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 08:25:08 GMT

Another suggestion is to have direct root access from a user account in
the GUI. Right now if I am installing something and happen to be user "me"
and it suddenly becomes apparent that I need to set some files right in
one of the root owned directories I have to go into "terminal" and change 
things with unix commands after becoming super user by using "su". What I'd
like is to see an option in the user workspace menu, under tools maybe,
called superuser. Choosing this option should cause the loginwindow to be
displayed with root filled into the user field. On giving the password, 
without rearranging the workspace to match the root workspace and without 
halting any background processes it would be great to get all the root
permissions to rearrange files.     Rakhal Dave