On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:26:37PM +0100, Henning Larsen wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 11:15 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:01:37AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Henning Larsen <hennlar <at> start.no> writes: > > > > Is there any way to do su in X? > > > > > > The easiest way is to use kdesu (in kdebase). > > > > > Surely it's also pretty easy to su to root in a terminal window and > > then run the required application from the root command line (or in > > the case in question just create the folders/directories using the > > su'ed comaand line). > > > > -- > Thanks. > > OK, about creating folders using the su command, can you please explain > a bit more? > > I want to as a regular user be able to edit config files. The safest > would be to get prompted for password, but it is not a must. > At a command prompt in a terminal window just issue the command 'su', you will be asked for the root password and when you have entered it you get a new prompt which is usually a '#' instead of '$' to warn you that you are running as root. Then just navigate to where you want to create folders/directories and issue 'mkdir <name>' to you hearts content to create directories. -- Chris Green
