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Dear Neil, > Are there any other replacements for gksu please? I'm not familiar with gksu, but if you are using GNOME it is possible to access root-owned files by using a special prefix to the file's path. With Gedit (the GNOME text editor), for example, you can press 'open' at the top left, then 'other documents' to bring up the file selection window. From here you can press Ctrl+l to bring up an 'address bar', into which the special address goes. admin:///etc/fstab You could also use sudoedit, which doesn't require GNOME (although I am still using gedit as an example editor here). EDITOR=gedit sudoedit -e /etc/fstab I found those solutions and quite a few others on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_GUI_applications_as_root#GVFS However, it seems as if all the other methods have rather serious implications for security. That said, they may not be any worse than the sudoedit method in practice, as any malicious program running under X11 could log your password anyway. Alternatively, you could just edit the files with `sudo nano`. GNU Nano is a lovely little text editor; it's easy to use at first but can be pretty powerful if you take the time to configure it to your liking. Hope this gives some potential leads if not a complete solution! :) Best wishes, Sebastian -- - Freenode: 'seabass' -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq