On 11/1/25 1:33 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 1 Nov 2025 at 0:12, Samuel Sieb wrote:
How exactly are you getting to root? Did you see the other emails about
that?
msetzerii@setzcodell2:~$ su
Password:
root@setzcodell2:/home/msetzerii#
Did you miss the explanations in the other emails?
You need to use "sudo -i" or "su -" so you get a login shell with
root's environment instead of dragging in the user's environment.
Hi Samuel, just for info and I don't know if this is just my
environment, if I issue sudo -i it prompts for my password, which when
supplied it switches to root as expected. If I issue su - it prompts for
a password and if I supply my password it gets an authentication
failure, which I assume is because it wants a root user which by default
Fedora doesn't create.
I can understand your query with why Michael is switching to root to run
geany, I have the same query, does sudo geany not work when editing
files owned by root as it does with nano, but is not required with
kwrite which will error if you try to run it under sudo and prompts for
a password when it needs to write the file.
regards,
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