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I have my root password, and just installed a keylogger for myself and after losing a long chunk of text i worked really hard on to a program crash. The keylogger installed just fine, using my root password in the terminal worked fine to, set the output file and started it. Now how do i look at the output file? Under permissions, it say's that only root can read/write. How do i log in as root?

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That is annoying indeed. It should ask if you want to open as administrator when you are in the admin group. Perhaps we can get it in 12.10? – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Apr 10 '12 at 7:46

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I wouldn't start a file browser instance with gksu to open a file. I would use:

gksudo gedit /the/full/path/to/the/file

Or any other text editor it's easy to copy paste multi-page text from for that matter.

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Thanks, that worked :) – illyan Apr 10 '12 at 1:04
No problem. Do be careful with bouncing about as root though. Some editors save preference files that might get re-written as root and you can have problems down the road. – Call me V Apr 10 '12 at 1:06
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Enable open as administrator in nautilus!

To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below:

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sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu

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After installing that application run copy and paste the line below and press enter.

sudo cp /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/

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Finally, log out and back in then go and test it, by clicking your right mouse click on the file you want to run as Admin and your see a popup menu with the words: open as administrater.

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Visit: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/12/add-open-as-administrator-to-nautilus-context-menu-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/ for help and from here.

Enjoy!

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First, Open Terminal Type:

gksu nautilus <location>

will help to navigate as root.

sudo gedit <location>

will help to open / edit too.

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Won't Gedit automatically be run as root if you run Nautilus as root and use it to open a file? – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Apr 10 '12 at 7:44

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