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Asked by ram deva mahor

when i want to edit a file it givesmassage
permission denied

while i have been switchet to root

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

hello

to edit a file you can switch to root and open up with your favourite text editor like gedit and manipulate the file or use sudo with out root..

For example:

root@gutsy:# gedit /etc/fstab if I want to edit fstab as root
OR
bhavi@gutsy: ~ sudo gedit /etc/fstab If I want to edit fstab without root

If you are editing files in the root partition then give the following command in a terminal

gksu nautilus (Which starts nautilus as root so you can modify the files in root partition)

or

kdesu konqueror (if you are on kde/kubuntu)

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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ram deva mahor (ramdevamahor) said : 		#2

i m editing as root but getting massage that
u dont have permission

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Ok.. Can you provide info about what are you trying to edit and how are you editing in more detail please?

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ram deva mahor (ramdevamahor) said : 		#4

i was editing conig file of privoxy
its owner is root
 i m using command
sudo -i
for root

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#5

Hello

do

gksu nautilus for nautilus to start as root

Or kdesu konqueror if you are using kubuntu

then

gedit /etc/privoxy/config to open and modify the config file Or

sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config to edit the file with super user privileges

More info on sudo:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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ram deva mahor (ramdevamahor) said : 		#6

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.