On Wednesday 13 June 2007 4:01 pm, Reg wrote:

> Have practiced adding shares today  a couple of times  with the  right
> clicking method successfully.

Easy eh?
>
> Regarding editing files:  if I am logged in as reg  I can do it by
> logging right off and logging in again as root, but is there a quicker
> way to get root access without having to log right out and back in again?

I use either of two methods:-

1/ Open a terminal screen, type su - (that's "su -"), press enter, enter root 
password (now you are logged into the session as root)
type nano -w /path/to/filename (you do know about tab completion don't you?)
press enter

(I know you do not have nano on your system yet Reg but I do recommend it as 
being far more intuitive than vi - which you saw David using last night)

2/ Open, in KDE,  "File Manager - Super User Mode" then enter the root 
password, browse to the file, right click it and open with kwrite.
(Not sure if Suse calls it "File Manager - Super User Mode" but most KDE 
distros do. Volker?)

Rob

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