Minor additions: > 1/ Open a terminal screen, type su - (that's "su -"), press enter, enter root > password (now you are logged into the session as root)
sux - is the one you want if you also want to start graphics programs (like kwrite), at least on SUSE. > type nano -w /path/to/filename (you do know about tab completion don't you?) > press enter If you are familiar with old Borland programming tools of MSDOS days, not much beats joe as a quicky text editor. Or the same thing with Wordstar key shortcuts: jstar. Or the same thing for masochists: jmacs. And it's part of the SUSE base system and therefore always installed. > 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?) Good question, I never use it like that. I always have konsole (the KDE terminal) open, and holding down the mouse button on the new tab icon in the bottomleft corner givesd a popup which includes "root shell". Hmm, I hacked another entry into it which gives me "root shell with X" (and which runs sux). Ah here we go: KDEbutton -> System -> File manager -> File manager super user mode. Of course one can always go KDEbutton -> Run command, and run kdesu. But there's a trap: kdesu does not ask what program to run, you have to tell it on its command line. So to run kwrite, one has to enter kdesu kwrite with a space between them in the Run command box. Oh SUSE? or KDE? by default replaced the old KDE button (bottom left on desktop) with this ....... THING. You can get your sanity back by right-clicking on it, and selecting "Switch to KDE menu style". If you like it better sexy afterall, right click again and select "switch to SUSE menu style". Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
