When you run the Yast tool, you enter the root password. This is different from logging on as root, which it is my understanding is a bad idea and not needed anyway. You can run a terminal as root from a normal terminal by typing su and then entering the root password when prompted. Or you could right click the panel then go Add, Special Button, Terminal Sessions. Clicking the added button lets you start various consoles, including a Root Console (which will again prompt you for the root password).
The way I get to edit a file as root is through the Go button (is that it's name?), go to System, File Manager, File Manager - Super User Mode. Navigate to the file, right click it and go to Open With, and choose an editor from there - you are then editing it as root. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Stoker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 1:52 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Firefox > I discovered that my /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers didn't exist, though > could rectify this by copying it from another machine I have that also runs > Suse and then things ran OK. I could email you a copy if you are in the > same situation if that would help. The library exists file:/var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers but I cannot get in as root to modify it as per Volker's instructions. Also not sure why YaST then is unable to read the list of ten or so servers currently in the file. Reason: Haven't discovered how to log on as root! Every time I try to switch users to root I am taken to the YaST popup screen after entering the root password. The only other way I know of becoming root is to become a super user in the console window...but then I am not in a graphical interface environment. I thought that when I was using YaST I was logged in as root...or does this only apply to the YaST application itself?
