On Friday 17 December 2004 11:25, Alexander Apprich wrote: > Hi soraberri, > > soraberri wrote: > > Hi all > > > > maybe there is a simple to way to solve this nuisance but I didn't find > > it, maybe you could suggest me one: > > > > when I'm for example browsing through the filesystem as a non-root user > > and I open a text file wich I want to edit, change and save, how can I > > "su" to root in order to do it in the same graphical desktop enviroment? > > I mean: what is the equivalent to the su command for the desktop? > > as root edit /etc/sudoers, and copy the line > > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > > and change it to > > soraberri ALL=(ALL) ALL > > from now on you can run programs as user soraberri as follows > > sudo `programname` > > this runs `programname` as root. If you want to switch to root you can > use > > sudo su - > > > thanks to all and try to have a very nice day, sometimes it only depends > > on us.! > > Same here :-) Suse Pro 9.1 has the ideal feature as standard 'switch user button' it locks your current session presents you with a new log in, log on as root (or who ever) do what you gotta do end the session and your back to standard user. I wish Fedora had this its great for people like me with limited command line skills much easier than messing about editing config files. Just a thought ;-) -- Regards Peter Cannon
