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Salamo alikom
i am trying to login to gnome as root privilege so i edit the file gdm under /etc/pam.d then i add AllowRoot=true ,after i type gdm in terminal ,the login screen show me a MSG say authentication fail .
 
Learn to use su/sudo, there's even a GUI for it called gksu.
 
GNOME make many thinks easy specially for beginner like me ,i am surfing internet or reading email as user but configuring sys as root ,for that i am asking.
 
Most of the system-level configurations on FreeBSD are done using a console, as the gui tools are not mature enough because they are most linux-centric.
There is nothing that you can do with a gui that you can't do from a console and the opposite is not true.
So keep surfing the internet and reading your email as normal user, but learn how to configure the system from a console using su or sudo as suggested, and you'll gain a wider skill.
The Handbook is a good source and you can always ask here in the forums.
 
I need this too, because now I'm testing FreeBSD, I use text editor to edit some config file but can not save (etc: squid.conf, edit on console is too hard).
 
@ng_diem From console, login as root, then start your favorite GUI editor.
Code: 
$su
Password:
# geany &
 
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