root has less menus

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 16:41, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
> >> I've enabled root user for login to Gnome but why root has less
> >> menus than the admin user ?
> >
> > Why do you need to login to Gnome as root? Don't.
>
> I've found it useful to do so on occasion.  I have my /home
> partition as an encrypted loopfs.  Every now and then I like to
> back it up, which means unmounting/unlooping, which means I need to
> login without /home. It's much easier to simply login as root to X
> than go through the hassle of changing the runlevel and
> rebooting...

Much easier to create a new regular user whose home dir is /tmp/$USER 
or similar, run Gnome from there and use sudo as necessary. Same 
result without the risks of running Gnome as root.



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Alan McKinnon
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