Becoming Root to make changes using the File Browser

[jim lawrence]

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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