Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

phil happyharrysco1 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 5 11:28:20 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> phil wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Rangeen Basu wrote:
>>>> you can also use this command:
>>>>
>>>> su -c 'gedit /etc/your_file.conf'
>>>> Password:
>>>
>>> Using su with GUI apps can lead to X11 sockets and the like getting 
>>> wrong
>>> permissions and screwing up that user's configuration. YMMV.
>>>
>>>         Kevin Kofler
>>>
>>
>> hence my total confusion as to why fedora no longer ships gksu??
> 
> Fedora has never shipped gksu ever. Applications in Fedora uses either 
> consolehelper or policykit. You might try beesu instead.
> 
> Rahul
> 

yep seems like my memory is starting to fail, i was remembering my 
debian days, pity i can't stick some new ram in my head to replace the 
broken bits lol




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