Solution for OEMs/Gnome

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:13:00PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Stanislav Brabec wrote:
...
> >In general:
> >
> >Having a chance to configure important things for all users as a root
> >without touching home directories is a reasonable feature. If you find
> >interesting things not configurable, please fill a Bugzilla entry.
> 
> How do I do that though? I don't want to login to X as root, and 
> gconf-editor doesn't seem to give me any options for adding an icon to 
> the panel.

Daniel,

In that case, would it help to:

$ sudo xterm

You are now root in the new terminal, and can vi/vim/emacs any system
files to your heart's content:

# id -a
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

hth,
Erik