On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:55 -0500, Jeffrey Burns wrote: > On Fri, 2005-18-02 at 12:08 -0600, Terry R. Grier wrote: > > How do I become root to move and copy files using Nautilus? > > I read the help file and cannot find anything on it ... > > > > Thank you. > > T > > If you don't want to log in a root from the GDM, try this at a terminal: > > [you@yourcpu ~]$ su - > Password:<type root pw and ENTER> > [root@yourcpu ~]# nautilus --no-desktop FWIW, for things I run as root a lot, I like to set up a sudoers file with commands my user is able to run as root _without_ needing to su - first [like network restarts for the laptop]. so this: $ su - $ service network restart $ exit becomes this $ sudo /sbin/service network restart man sudo for more info. -- Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
