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How does one get into Linux Mint SU to edit a file.
I just started using Linux Mint, I'am a Linux user for 20 years and blocking a experience user that cannot get into ROOT is horrible.
Another way is with sudoedit, which will launch the editor of your choice under your unprivileged account. That way the editor won't run as root. That's especially useful in other situations where you are giving partial access to another user.
How can you be a 20yr Linux user, and not know Ubuntu and it's various derivatives, including Mint... use sudo by default for root privileges? I'm not a fan of sudo personally, so I always disable it for a conventional root account..
That said... Hello from Greenwood..
Last edited by IndyGunFreak; 12-25-2016 at 03:28 PM.
IndyGunFreak, where do you live in Indianapolis, I live on the Southside near 465 and 65 ?
I would like to connect to a fellow Linux user in Indianapolis, I'm coming up on 77 years old and I need to have some Linux user in In Indy to keep my families Linux boxes up and running when i Go.
I'm a Viet Vet and I have a M14 rifle we used in Vietnam and a 45 Auto.
How does one get into Linux Mint SU to edit a file.
I just started using Linux Mint, I'am a Linux user for 20 years and blocking a experience user that cannot get into ROOT is horrible.
that is exactly (one reason) why I steer really hard away from distros that do this to the user, and went to one that does not hide the root account.
Thinking they know best. The gall of them all that do this.
but su
all one should have to know is the password. Most distros that "remove" root account, set up the first user having sudo rights attached to their a password. SO you'll have to use sudo in lue of su.
I'm coming up on 77 years old and I need to have some Linux user in In Indy to keep my families Linux boxes up and running when i Go.
I'm a Viet Vet and I have a M14 rifle we used in Vietnam and a 45 Auto.
is that a subconscious thought said out loud in an attempt to get someone to help you? lol
BW, That was getting help for my family, that all of them use Linux.
Windows doesn't exist in all of my Brother and sisters, I lost my Brother on 15 Dec. this year. and his family is still using Fedora. All of them like a OS that doesn't CRASH.
BW, That was getting help for my family, that all of them use Linux.
Windows doesn't exist in all of my Brother and sisters, I lost my Brother on 15 Dec. this year. and his family is still using Fedora. All of them like a OS that doesn't CRASH.
sorry to hear your loss. But I was just reading into what you said, and attempting to make a bit of a joke out of what was said.
I need help and I have a gun.
Being the shorter version. Just the picture in my head of someone holding a gun at someone telling them they need help. seemed comical to me. a bit of a Freudian slip perhaps, and perhaps unintended as well. (psychology is my habit)
I was responding to IndyGunFreak and telling him about the Guns I had.
I know, it was just the way you delivered the entire message .. first you tell him you need help then you tell him you have guns... simple enough have a nice day.
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