Perhaps sudo can help you, with sudo you just do: sudo <command> and it's executed with root privileges (after ofcourse you have given the user permission to use sudo).
Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, tom wrote: > howdy guys, > > This is one of those things that has > been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I > edit files that require su privilages? (like /etc/fstab). I > usually su from eterm and "jed filename". can I su from within > emacs? nedit? > > thanks! > > -tom > > -- > > -tom > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
