set up a root password

[Gordon Schulz]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:05, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_Gr=FCn_ <ulrich.gruen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What others already said... But if you are like me and don't like the whole
> > sudo thing - 'sudo passwd' will allow you to set a seperate root
> > password.
> 
> But then you still need to use sudo, since every application that
> needs root-privileges, will ask for your sudo passwd.
> This behaviour could probably be changed as well, but I don't know how.
Invoking GUI-Stuff from say within KDE's controlcenter - sure. I'm pretty
used to doing my root-involved stuff from a terminal after issueing an 
'su -' though. 
-- 
Gordon.