I want to edit my fstab. If I start gedit in a terminal window as user then fstab is opened read-only.
On the other hand, if I switch to root and try to start gedit then I get
** (gedit:6264): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus
and gedit does not start. What would that be?
Greetings
HN
Use “gnomesu gedit” to start gedit as root.
On 2013-07-29 13:16, hnimmo wrote:
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> I want to edit my fstab. If I start gedit in a terminal window as user
> then fstab is opened read-only.
>
> On the other hand, if I switch to root
How exactly do you do that?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
aahh…
that works a treat!
Thanks
HN
On 2013-07-29 13:46, hnimmo wrote:
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> wolfi323;2575302 Wrote:
>> Use “gnomesu gedit” to start gedit as root.
>
> aahh…
>
> that works a treat!
Probably (you have not answered my question) you used “su”. That fails,
you have to use “su -”.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Yes, you are right. I switched user with ‘su’ and then entered gedit as root.
Now I have to understand what the difference is between ‘su’ and ‘su -’ :\
cheers
hn
su keeps the user environment su - switches to a true root environment.
On 2013-07-29 19:56, hnimmo wrote:
> Yes, you are right. I switched user with ‘su’ and then entered gedit as
> root.
> Now I have to understand what the difference is between ‘su’ and ‘su -’
> :\
“man su” 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)