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chip

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Registered: 2008-06-29

Posts: 2

accessing certain programs on the menuy as a user, not root, on FreeBSD

I am using FreeBSD 7-Release, just got it up and running and XFCE. In FreeBSD one cannot log in as root, when I try to access certain menu-listed programs, such as System/Shared Folders, I am not allowed to do so, only root can access that menu option.

If I can't log in as root, how do I access these root-only programs from the menu?

Thanks.

herd

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 143

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Re: accessing certain programs on the menuy as a user, not root, on FreeBSD

I don't have my FreeBSD box at hand now, but this should do:

install sudo and gksu from the ports,
configure gksu to be gksudo,
add yourself to the admin group e.g. by sudo users-admin.

hth,

herd

PS:
Do you know how to get the terminal/consoles more linuxish under FreeBSD?