On Sunday 24 August 2003 21:30, you wrote: > I have OOo1.1, thanks to helpful advice from the group re. wget. (4 > hours 30 minutes and 7 interruptions). > > I have "setup." > I have "setup -net" for a good reason (which I forget) dating from last > years installation of OOo1.0. > > I am told by setup -net that I need root privileges. > My fingers hover over the keys "su root." > Is this wise? Is it elegant? Is it advisable? Is it a good habit? > > What should I be reading, in order better to understand a very recent > thread?
firstly you can just type su to change to root and secondly sudo is probably what you want just add yourself to the sudoers list in /etc. Once done just type sudo dir (or what every command you want to use root permissions for)
