Becoming Root using Nautilus

[Craig Thomas]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:55 -0500, Jeffrey Burns wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-18-02 at 12:08 -0600, Terry R. Grier wrote:
> > How do I become root to move and copy files using Nautilus?
> > I read the help file and cannot find anything on it ...
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > T
> 
> If you don't want to log in a root from the GDM, try this at a terminal:
> 
> [you at yourcpu ~]$ su -
> Password:<type root pw and ENTER>
> [root at yourcpu ~]# nautilus --no-desktop

FWIW, for things I run as root a lot, I like to set up a sudoers file
with commands my user is able to run as root _without_ needing to su -
first [like network restarts for the laptop].

so this:

$ su -
$ service network restart
$ exit

becomes this

$ sudo /sbin/service network restart

man sudo for more info.

-- 
Craig Thomas <cjtinhp at optonline.net>