root user and any GUI

[Dan Lund]

It sounds like somehow the false assumption is that you can't use gui
tools through root commandline.
It's done all of the time, and has been done for more than a decade by
myself....
It's just accepted practice to not run anything other than necessary
as root.  Freedom isn't one of the things restrained.

To use sudo without passwording, visudo and use the following line:
username     ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD: ALL

change username to the username you log in as.

Then you can use sudo with any command.  sudo "command".
Now that you know, you can use that knowledge.

--Dan



On 11/28/06, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> So once again, I would like to be capable of using a gui desktop and gui
> tools while logged in a root when I as sole proprietor of my network and
> computing facilities decide to do so.  I want the freedom and do not want my
> OS to prevent me.  My risk and my freedom.  Like I said I use sudo for most
> such things but just hate being a second class citizen (unable to use MY
> choice of tools) when I decide to be root.

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