login/logout command
 

I was just wondering if its possible to login to your root account while in ur person account from konsol. Reason being in order to install stuff i find myself loging in and out of my name over and over and was wondering if there is a way to just do it through konsol and still have my desktop from my personal account stay up. I have tryed to sh then do it but it still doesnt work, i am using mandrake 10.1. Just trying to look for a shortcut.

su root


Regards,

Edwin

man su
 

[user@host $] man su

;treehead

you dont even need the root

you can just type 'su' to give your self root permisions

OR


you can type 'su -' to create another terminal instance and log in as root.

Does this work the same way if I am using a gui in RHC 4 and KDE

RoutyRastus

Yup. I have to lengthen this response to at least 10 characters.

Make sure that you check out the "sudo" command as well. It is an alternative to "su"ing to root and working as superuser.

Just to expand on BeatRyder:
The cmd
su
will log you in as root, but with your own env eg $PATH, not root's
su -
will log you as root with root's env....

"su -" also spawns a unique session.
"su" uses your existing one, but elevates your privileges