Becoming Root to make changes using the File Browser
jim lawrence
fedorajim at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 17:07:56 UTC 2005
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:58:13 -0600, Terry R. Grier
<terry at tigerstaffing.net> wrote:
> I am trying to modify the yum conf file.
> I was trying to access it via the file browser and gedit.
>
> How do I temporarily become root to make the changes I need?
>
> Thank you .
> Terry
>
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open the terminal
su - then root password
as root cd to your yum.conf file
then issue this command
gedit <path to> yum.conf
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Jim Lawrence
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