Root password???

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 08:31:43 UTC 2006


On 07/04/06, ZephyrQ <zephyrq at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I opened a terminal, ran 'sudo <file manager of choice>' and it asked
> for a password.  I entered my own (first user).  No dice.  I entered
> hers, I was not able to access her archive.  I had to log out of her
> desktop (during much teenage whining) to enter mine so I could transfer
> the necessary files.

 su to you, then run sudo.
Or man sudo and find out how to give her access to that resource.

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