On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:19:17AM -0400, James Rome wrote:
sudo nedit file.txt did work. But I much prefer to do sudo su and
run in
the root window for administration. Why does that not work?
By default, su discards the environment. This means, in particular,
that the
xauthority can longer before, preventing access. Adding -p ("preserve
environment") should fix this:
sudo su -p
Alternately, sudo -s.
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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