I installed Mandrake community (10.1) and experienced slow web page loading. I modified /etc/modprobe.conf by adding two lines to the file to correct it. I had to logout and logon as root to do this. Is there a way to open a file in Kedit as user and save the file as root??

open a Konsole....and do
enter your root password
now type
voila the kedit is running as root and u can do whatever you need to

linux_terror

Well, the correct (and much easier) way would be:

(1) Log into X-Windows as a regular user
(2) Open up a Konsole/xterm
(3) Become root by typing in 'su -' and your password
(4) Go to /etc (cd /etc)
(5) Run 'kedit modprobe.conf' and edit the file
(6) Close Kedit
(7) Get out of the Konsole using exit

It is very bad policy to login as root to X-Windows. It is extremely insecure and leaves you open to a lot of vulnerabilities and attacks.

Of course, you have the option of going to one of the consoles (CTRL+F1), logging in as root and editing the file from there. But, then, you'd have to use something like vim, emacs, nano, pico, ...

Regards,

zakaluka.

thats what i just said.... minus not using kedit to cd ...

Thanks for the help. The first reply from linux terror seems to work best. I may have other problems cause I get error messages "can't open without gui" or something like that. Then, I get error on root and then again after exit root.

This was what I was looking for tho, Thanks again

Rockets

You experts helped me considerabley, at least I was motivated to find the real answer:

Rt click on a clear area of the desktop

Select "run command"

Type kedit in the command box

Select options

Check run as different user

Type "root" then password

Select "file - open" then browse to the desired file

Modify your file and save

Exit

This is a clean quick method and avoids the kernel complaints when issueing gui commands from a text console, etc. ygwypf.

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