Becoming Root to make changes using the File Browser

[Terry R. Grier]

jim lawrence wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:58:13 -0600, Terry R. Grier
><terry at tigerstaffing.net> wrote:
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>>I am trying to modify the yum conf file.
>>I was trying to access it via the file browser and gedit.
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>>How do I temporarily become root to make the changes I need?
>>
>>Thank you .
>>Terry
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>open the terminal
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>su -   then root password 
>as root   cd to your yum.conf  file 
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>then issue this command  
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>gedit <path to> yum.conf 
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Jim ... Thank you for your quick repsonse.
Terry