How to access locked files on FC6 from FC2 on same machine

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have 
> access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf 
> have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer 
> the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from 
> a file is usefull.
> Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? After 
> all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to Kmails 
> composer.

Have you tried reading these files as root?

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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