I switch from Fedora to Debian... But Debian wont let me log in as root like Fedora . How can I open folders/files as root? I need to cofig a few system files plz help Im a noob and need some experiece user knowledge...Thx

A link or clear instructions plz.

You can log in with your user account and at a command line type sudo or su to temporarily gain root status. You might want to look up the man pages for these.

Im trying to avoid the terminal...Im looking for a right click method...simple and easy.... but thx

Logging in with a full desktop as root is a bad idea and waste of time, you should use su or sudo. I believe you can use sudo to launch X apps so you can just run 'sudo gedit /etc/blah.conf'.

Are you running Gnome? You can type gksudo nautilus in the terminal and Nautilus (the file browser) will open up as root within your user login.

Alt+F2 then for KDE type kdesu konqueror
for Gnome type gksu nautilus
You can them browse and open the files with whatever text editor you use.

Sudo only works if you have the permissions in the sudousers file.It is more a MEPIS and Ubuntu thing, though I guess you could set it up and use it in Debian.Never used sudo myself.
Noone but me knows my root password, that way noone can screw with my system.

Try looking under your System menu (KDE) for File Manager Superuser. If you click it , you will be prompted for your root password then Konqueror will open as root. Browse and edit all you want.

Like craigevil said you can setup gksu. I haven't used kdesu myself so I don't know how that works. Gksu works with sudo though. So you'll probably have to go into the command line to use "visudo" to change the permissions.

Great I was able to config a few files I need to. Thx all

That is great! Thank you. (gksu nautilus)

You can also add the following to the beginning of command field in the properties of any icon/shortcut on the desktop or panel: su-to-root -X -c

For example, to run the Konsole as root, this should be in the command field:

su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/konsole

I like doing this when I have a lot of admin work to do in the CLI and don't feel like typing sudo all the time. ;-)

Rik

You could get nautilus-gksu, that adds an "Open as Administrator" entry to the right click context menu.
As root:
or:

These are also very useful.