help use gedit to edit server files

[Luis Paulo]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> I also have a mchine/server with no X.
>> I log with ssh and use nano to edit most files
>> To use graphical editors you have (?) to use them on your "work station",
>> synchronizing the files back to the server
>>
>> Synchronizing here being a loose term. There are several ways you can do
>> that, already discussed on this mailing list:
>> nfs, sshfs, ftp, rsync, cvs, ...
>>
>> And the easiest of them all, probably
>> Use nautilus, Places -> Connect to Server..., select SSH, enter ip and
>> user, click connect.
>> And you will be graphical browsing your server and editing files with
>> whatever tools you have on your workstation
>
> I think that is what the OP is doing, but the problem is that he
> cannot edit files that require sudo to edit them.

Right, for those you'll have to log as a user with write permissions

For example, log as root
Use nautilus, Places -> Connect to Server..., select SSH, enter ip,
enter "root" for user, click connect. You'll have to type root's
password on the remote machine, and it's all yours.

Regards
Luis