Doug Weeks <fourweeks.vet@mindspring.com> writes:
Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Doug Weeks <fourweeks.vet@mindspring.com> writes:
Tried to use kate as root but the suse way: sh kate (as root) or ./kate didnt work. Had to use file manage-superuser mode and it didnt let me edit the /etc/fstab file. How do you open kate as root if not by the 2 commands above which I found in the manual! <
In which manual? The manual should be fixed, these commands are wrong.
I used th online SuSe help menu and did a search on root. This is the 8.1 pro distro Suse help>"search" root then link on "root cannot execute certain commands" is where I got this.
The SDB advice (note SDB is not a manual) is OK you just misinterpreted it.
I was used to just typing in the command after su'ing as root in Mandrake so this was a bit confusing.
It's the same in SuSE - use "su" for text based and "sux" for GUI based programs.
Guess I have to open superuser file manager then open with right click on the file to get others???
It can be done like that. In general, programs inherit the root ID from their parents so if the file manager runs with the root ID then all programs it starts will also run with the root ID (unless the code was written in a special way to prevent this). -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se