Introduction and first request for help (especially with permissions)

[Anton Markov]

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Bill Mudry wrote:
| When I would try to save it, it keeps saying that it cannot save the
| backup and then that it cannot save the file I am working on.
| Ok, I can understand that I was working as user "bill" so it would not
| necessary have the right permissions. However, I then
| did a su root to get root privileges. I then opened another copy of
| Bluefish and made the changes again and tried to save --- as
| root. It still refuses to save(!).

Even if you change to root in another terminal, the open application
will still run as the user who started it (bill). To be able to modify
files as root, you should use 'su' to become root and then start the
application from the _same_ console. You could also use KDE's "Run
Command" box, press "Options", and select which user the application
should run as. You can even modify the KMENU item to make it the
default. I wouldn't recommend editting files as root. As Peter
suggested, it may be best to use an intermediate file. Or perhaps create
a separate user to use for editting configuration files (if you need to
do it often).

|                 - the most common I have used is to change from user
| bill via su root. However, if a file is already being edited,
|                   is there a way to save a file when it will not let me?
None that I know off. Use a temporary file.

|
|                 - I have started a root session via the side menus that
| ask what kind of terminal you want to start. It works, but
|                   because I will be using root quite a bit at first
| setting up stuff, I wish a root session and terminal would
|                   concurrently be active on each bootup. How can I do
that?
If you use Konsole as your terminal emulator, it may be enough to simply
leave it running before exitting KDE, and it should be reopened by the
session manager. Never tried it with a root shell though.


I hope this helps.

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Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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