Hi. On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 > gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > > My fav editor, geany is also > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > > me. So there is a common problem. > > Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work > directory, copy to/from the real location with a root-powered file > manager, such as mc under sudo in a terminal. Alter owner/perms as > required with mc.
Or just use visudo which does it all without user's intervention. visudo, and this is a hint, *does* allow user to invoke both X- and Wayland-based text editors, given the appropriate amount of configuration. And this is the rightest (sp?) way there is, because allowing user to run root-powered file manager is a deviation from the said way. Reco
