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[swiss]

Hi I did say I was a newby! I use autologin and when I open konsole (which I think is an editor that you mention and the only editor I seem to have) I am logged in as myname@localhost and I don't know how to change this to root login. I installed mandrake 10.1 and so the myname login I thought would be the root one, anyway it won't let me access a lot of the files which would be available in root but I don't know how to get to root.
Any help please! this is a bit of a learning curve but I'm not going to give up just yet.
Thanks
Andy
In reply I needs things explained in idiot guide format!

[deltaflyer]

the konsole is not an editor,it's a bit like having a dos box but more powerful.
to change to root

su

then press enter
it will then display

password

enter the root password (you do remember it?) that will give you root users permissions. when finished type

exit

that will get you back to normal user mode
to edit a file type

kate filename

where filename is the name of the file you wish to edit

[fvs]

spencerf. Thanks for your great reply. fvs