grub file

[tommy mcdurmon]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 24 July 2006 11:49, Mitch Thompson wrote:
>   
>> Richard E. Barmann wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 24 July 2006 10:17 am, Mitch Thompson wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>>>> tommy mcdurmon wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I am using Kubuntu 6.06 and I need to edit the grub file. I can find
>>>>> the /boot/grub/menu.lst file but it will not allow me to edit the
>>>>> file. What command do I use that will allow me to edit this file?
>>>>> thanks much.
>>>>> tom
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>> sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Right click on the "menu.lst" file and go to actions in the drop down
>>> menu.   One of the choices in actions is "edit as root"
>>>  
>>>       
>> Back home, this is known as "more than one way to skin a cat" (apologies
>> to cat lovers on the list).
>>     
>
> and here are two more
>
> from konsole type
> kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.lst &
>
> You get an input box where you type your user password.
> Now you can edit the file "as root".
>
> or
>
> Press <Alt>+F2.  type kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> The same steps as above follow.
>
> BUT....
>
> ...AND I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
>
> If your Linux skills are so rudimentary, I would not play with editing grub's 
> menu.lst by hand.  That's why Linux doesn't let you edit grub unless you have 
> root privileges.
>
> In a traditional Linux system, with a root account and not sudo or kdesu, 
> etc., Users with your inexperience were not given the root password to 
> prevent them from messing things up.  The beauty of Linux permissions is that 
> they protect the system from people without root access, thereby preventing 
> them from messing things up.
>
> With Ubuntu's adoption of sudo and using your user password, everyone (because 
> everyone is a sudoer by default) can get root access.  That can be dangerous.
> If you don't 
>
>   
thanks for warning.
tom