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Old 03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Coded-Dude View Post
Or....if you don't like doing too much as root(only here and there), login as root once and give yourself sudo access. Then you can run one or two root commands at a time from your regular user account by merely typing sudo before the command. e.g. - "sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-extras.repo" You enter your password and will be granted root privileges for a period of specified time within that particular shell(like a 5 minute timeout)

as root, "visudo" will open the sudoers file for editing, just yank/copy the line for root and enter your username(right below the root entry)

I'm sorry but i don't exactly understand what your saying
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