can't run gnome as root

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Oct 3, 2012 4:21 AM, "Avi Greenbury" <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>
> Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> > for administrative purpose i need to run Gnome being root.
>
> Why? It may be easier to solve the problem in some way other than
> bending Gnome such that it'll run as root.
>
> Which version of Ubuntu/Gnome is this?
>
> --
> Avi

For security testing for one. This is why Backtrack Linux, which is based
on Ubuntu, does run Gnome as root. Otherwise, you just can't do everything
you need to easily.

So basically, if you're willing to be a little behind the current release,
or you're doing security testing, use something like Backtrack.
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