Unable to login as root

[Christopher Chan]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009 20:25:11 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> 	[....]
>   
>> There is no provision for a root gui session. You can however run
>> programs with sudo.
>>     
>
> 	Is there any way, even for root, to remove all that cruft without 
> being logged in to a GUI? 
>
> 	The only way I know is to open Firefox as root (which of course I 
> can and do do from the CLI under a normal login), call up Add-ons > 
> Languages, and go through hitting uninstall buttons. 
>
> 	It's very tedious, and of course it's not a *whole* session; but 
> it is a GUI one for root, is it not?
>
>   

Like I said, you can use the sudoers system. sudo has plenty of 
frontends and Robert pointed out one of them: gksu