Coupla ideas, setup sudo, then from the run dowhacky do a sudo kedit or you could open a terminal su, then kedit.
jeremyb. > From: Matt Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/10 Thu AM 08:29:15 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others > > Is there an equivalent to "su" in a GUI? F'rexample, I'm logged in to > KDE, and am using Kedit to edit my lilo.conf. Unfortunately, I can't > save it as I don't have permission to write there. I suppose I could > save it elsewhere, go to a terminal windowe, su, and copy the file over > to the /etc folder. Or is this why I have to learn those icky editors > like vi or emacs? And which is better <ducks, runs>? > > Also, has anyone been able to get an exisiting RAID setup recognized? > (ASUS board with Promise controller, two drives in striped array, > formatted FAT32). I do have an entry in my fstab for hdg, but according > to the partition table it's a 15G partition when that's the size of each > drive. > > Further, what's the difference between the disk icon on the desktop in > KDE and accessing the drives through, say, Konqueror? I can read and > write to my floppy and zip and listen to CDs, but if I try to access the > drives by clicking on that shortcut, I'm told I don't have permission... > Weird? > > Thanks, > Matt > >
