How to run paintball with root

[Eiii]

It's a pretty terrible idea. >_>

[Zorchenhimer]

Yea, its not the brightest thing to do.  You can easily screw over your computer (like with "rm -r /" instead of "rm -r ./").

[jitspoe]

rm -rf /bin/laden

[KiLo]

bin laden?

jitspoe=terrorist?

[y00tz]

rm -rf /*

Heh, I just made infinite jokes.

[Eiii]

I caught 'rm -rf /y00tz/isnt/funny'. That one was my favorite.

[KnacK]

I caught 'rm -rf /y00tz/isnt/funny'. That one was my favorite.

> /bad/joke/bin

[Zorchenhimer]

Hehe.  Look what I started.  ^_^

[Eiii]

> /bad/joke/bin

I'd prefer > /dev/null

[yossarianuk]

Often in Linux distros root is denied X access (for security reasons) by default.

I believe it is in ubuntu (you have sudo..) I can access X games in opensuse / mandriva as root though.

I it really never a good idea............

To login as root in Ubuntu:-

- login as normal user
- create root password with

sudo passwd root 
(type your password - then your new root one..)

Now you can su -

(so although you enter KDE (or if your sick gnome..) as normal user you will have full root access in a console)

- Please note that by default Ubuntu wan't allow root to access X apps, you can always use sudo as normal user though.

However as mentioned loads of times - - it is not a good idea to run games in Linux as root!!