File Browser with ROOT permissions

[Dick Dowdell]

By the way, you can use 'sudo' to open your GUI file browser, with ROOT
permissions, from Terminal.



On 6/2/07, David Restall - System Administrator <dave at restall.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> > How do you open up a file browser with root permissions?
>
> Don't know :-)
>
> > I'm trying to delete a file in a folder and it won't let me as I don't
> have
> > permission.
> >
> > I've tried "erase" and "delete" and "del" in a terminal window and none
> of
> > those are valid commands.  :O(
> >
> > I type Help at the command prompt and while it shows a number of
> commands,
> > it doesn't show "cp" for copy or anything that looks like a delete
> command.
> > Is there some listing of available commands some place? Like copy, move,
> > delete, mkdir, cd, etc.
>
> man rm
>
> Or quick summary :-
>
> sudo rm FILE
>
> and if you're a chicken :-
>
> sudo rm -i FILE
>
> I won't mention rm -rf so forget I ever said that :-)
>
> TTFN
>
>
> Dave
> ubuntu/users-2007-06-02.tx             ubuntu-users jan at azureservices.ca
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Dick Dowdell
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