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From: esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran Shtiegman)
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Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc.
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Date: 29 Apr 91 21:03:22 GMT
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In <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu> rdd@wuphys.wustl.edu (Rakhal D. Dave) writes:

>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

This is a great idea!  This happens to me at least once a day when I am
using my next.  Sometimes it is possible to launch the applications from
the terminal window after su to root.  But with some applications I 
can't do this like Installer that has a bunch of executables.

Eran
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