administrative...

[a12ctic]

ok so im trying to extract things to / and it wont let me, it says i dont have the right admin powers, i have the root pass/and i have the only acount... its proly something stupid but i cant figure it out...

[budman7]

You have to be logged in as root. Do

su -

that wll give you root's path. Putting the - after su gives you more access than just using su

[a12ctic]

i know that, i want to know how to do that while scanning through my folders in my file browsers

[budman7]

Let me get this straight, you right click on a file, you click Extract to and you select /. Then you are told that you don't have permission to do this.

Whenever I have tried to do something like that as normal user, I am asked for my root password.

[a12ctic]

ss:

[a12ctic]

ss:

http://img99.echo.cx/img99/1091/screenshot8rd.png

[a12ctic]

ss:

http://img99.echo.cx/img99/1091/screenshot8rd.png

[a12ctic]

thats wierd, sry for multiple posts, it froze on post (the site) and i accedently pressed it multiple times

[Xenon]

Have you tried it from comand line?

# su
# cd /path/to/folder
# tar zxvf filename

[a12ctic]

ok, i did...

[arctic@172 ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@172 ~]# cd /usr/share/themes
[root@172 themes]# tar -x ICON-Etiquette-0.6.tar.gz


and then theres the lil blinking box(been there for a couple of mins)...