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Do not have root access

doblenski

Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:48:38 am

Hi,
I don't have root access to my Zorin 8 ultimate. I am just administrater but I cannot get root access to install new tar.gz files.... :oops:

Wolfgang02

Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:50:11 pm

I am new so I may not be the best person to help you. I came across something similar yesterday when trying to install a driver. It used SU, but all my passwords would not work so I was confused.

I looked at: http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-change-th ... -in-ubuntu

In a terminal type:

sudo passwd

And then you can set a root password.

hope it helps.

Wolfman

Sat Apr 12, 2014 3:38:28 am

Hi,

open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and paste the following command:

Code:
gksudo nautilus


Enter your PW and your "Home" folder will open allbeit as "Root", you can make any necessary changes as root as long as you have your root home folder open, if you do nothing after a while, you will lose root priveleges, it will automatically be recindered if you don't do something.

You can also install the following package which is handy when working as root in home to install packages using the terminal:

Code:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal