[Fedora-livecd-list] Logging in as root

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 19:23:09 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Christian <christian08 at runbox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to install FC10 from the Live CD.
> However I am visually impaired and rely on speech and orca needs to be running as root in order for the installation program to be accessible.
> When I do
> sudo su from the gnome-terminal the live user is not in the sudors file.
> Any help would be apreciated, many thanks!

You could try:

 su -c '<command>'

In this case it would be the actual root password.

Richard




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