Terminal in "Super User Mode" in Gnome.

[PatrikJohansson88]

The thing is that i have installed Fedor Core 3 on my computer and both KDE and Gnome.

In KDE there is a choice in the menu called "Terminal Super User Mode" wich allows me to run all diffrent kinds of commands, but in Gnome i cant find this alternative, i can just find the standard Terminal but if i choose that i cant run all commands :( for example Ifconfig .

Even if i login as root (su).

Does anyone have a solution?

[mutantcol]

yeah, click the applications menu, then click system tools. Choose terminal

To go into super user mode, type "su" then it'll ask you for your root password, type it in, and you'll be in super user mode :)

[PatrikJohansson88]

The problem is that even if i do so i can still not run commands like "Ifconfig" !

But if i use KDE i can do so in "Super User Terminal" ?????????????????

[mutantcol]

Well, that binary (Ifconfig) is in sbin, so you need to do:

/sbin/Ifconfig

that'll launch it. Or you can make a link to it, and place it in /usr/bin. Then to launch it next time all you have to type is Ifconfig

[PatrikJohansson88]

Thanks,

how do you make a link??? :)

Edited December 11, 2004 by PatrikJohansson88

[mutantcol]

Thanks,

how do you make a link??? :)

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Right click a file and choose "make link"

You might have to start nautilus in super user mode, then browse for the file. Otherwise you won't have permission to make the link.

You should realy be doing it from the command line though, with this command:

ln FILE DIRECTORY -s

eg.....

ln /usr/bin/wine /home/colin/Desktop -s

But you'll be wanting to put the link in the /usr/bin folder anyway if you're wanting to make starting programs easier, so you will need root privileges

[markwolfe Veteran]

Another (and perhaps better) alternative is to just add /sbin/ to your normal user's $PATH.

It avoids messy links, and just allows Linux to look in the system binaries to find commands as a normal user. (Y)

[hornett]

No, just run

su -

instead of su.

:)

That way you get all root's paths etc instead of your normal user's, no need to type /sbin before anything.

[markwolfe Veteran]

^^^ Ahhh... Linux. More than 100 ways to skin that cat. :rofl:

[mutantcol]

heh cool, thanks for all those.... I've been using linux full time for about 5 months now, thoroughly enjoying it. Definately still got a lot to learn