kde su

wallace1819 · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 195 Location: VT

I'm sure this has been asked before but my searching has turned up nothing.

are there apps for gnome and kde that will grant temorary root access? I mean if I long in to kde as a normal user is there something I can use to give my self root access for a few mins with out have ing to log in as root or opening a terminal and doing "su -"/password and then the command.

thx
wallace

g33uu · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

There has to be something. Up until recently I was running Mandrake with KDE and whenever I attempted to run an app that required root privileges it would bring up a password window and then the app would run as root. Though I don't know if that was a function built into the mandrake utilities or KDE.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Under the System menu in KDE there is a program called "File Manager - Super User Mode" which will launch Konqueror as a file manager with root capabilities. It does ask for the root password bfore it will let you continue.

Files opened from within SuperKonqueror will behave as if they were opened as root or su. For example, you can edit and save files in /etc as if you were root.

Hope this is what you're looking for.
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daen1543 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:05 am Post subject:

kdesu is what you're looking for. Just don't do