Robert Fisher wrote: > 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 > > with option 2 I think by file manager you mean konqueror and I would execute:
ALT + F2 kdesu konqueror as it doesnt seem to be on a menu. either way I tried that and it still doesnt let me save a file in kwrite?? reg
