Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!murdoch!psysun1.acc.Virginia.EDU!smb3u From: smb3u@psysun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc. Message-ID: <1991May1.161623.3350@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 1 May 91 16:16:23 GMT References: <1991May1.075944.11571@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 32 In article <1991May1.075944.11571@nntp-server.caltech.edu> ptok@void.caltech.edu writes: >In article bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian >Bartholomew) writes: >> In article <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu> >> rdd@wuphys.wustl.edu (Rakhal D. Dave) writes: >> >> > 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 >> >> idea of a big Frankenstein-style "Maintenance" switch is appealing, > >I call this logging in as root. > I think logging in as root is exactly right. However, this problem might be attacked from another angle. What you want is to be able to pop back to what you were doing before you logged in as root. I might have ten windows open and a number of Apps each with their own panels arranged just as I like them. Logging out of my account to log in to root destroys all of that setup work. What I would like to see is a way to freeze my workspace while I log out so that when I next log in everything is where I left it. This would make the process of a full workspace login to root relatively painless. For other tasks, it is pretty easy to bring up an editor as root and a shell as root already. Steve Boker smb@data.com "I left my .sig at home"