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From: cafe@cbnewse.att.com (richard.dib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <1991May1.024534.4199@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 1 May 91 02:45:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.083232.12277@cbnewse.att.com> <591@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu>
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In article <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

Actually it would be better if you could "su" to any other account, not only
to "root".

Richard Dib
AT&T BL