Or....if you don't like doing too much as root(only here and there), login as root once and give yourself sudo access. Then you can run one or two root commands at a time from your regular user account by merely typing sudo before the command. e.g. - "sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-extras.repo" You enter your password and will be granted root privileges for a period of specified time within that particular shell(like a 5 minute timeout)
as root, "visudo" will open the sudoers file for editing, just yank/copy the line for root and enter your username(right below the root entry)
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