switching to root from desktop

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi soraberri,

soraberri wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> maybe there is a simple to way to solve this nuisance but I didn't find 
> it, maybe you could suggest me one:
> 
> when I'm for example browsing through the filesystem as a non-root user 
> and I open a text file wich I want to edit, change and save, how can I 
> "su" to root in order to do it in the same graphical desktop enviroment?
> I mean: what is the equivalent to the su command for the desktop?
> 

as root edit /etc/sudoers, and copy the line

    root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

and change it to

    soraberri ALL=(ALL) ALL

from now on you can run programs as user soraberri as follows

   sudo `programname`

this runs `programname` as root. If you want to switch to root you can
use

    sudo su -


> thanks to all and try to have a very nice day, sometimes it only depends 
> on us.!

Same here :-)

> 

Hth.

Alex