locked files/ can you force them open? how?

To the list;
I find locked files in KNOPPIX and I want to open them. I am in root ( I think ) , in a shell or console and I cannot open locked files.

any ideas?

finder

Hi,

go to a console and type

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whoami

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. If you are not yet root, type

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sudo su

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in order to become root. Verify it again by typing

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whoami

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.

Then, to view a file, simply do:

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cat /path/to/myfile

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where you replace /path/to/myfile with the name of the file you want to see.

It could be that the permissions are wrong. If that is the case, you can do

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chmod 700 /path/to/myfile

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in order to give root full access (and deny it to others).

Greetings,
probono[/code]