On Monday 25 June 2001 00:26, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Robert Tilley wrote: > > > Too many times I have needed to perform file manipulation using > > > Konqueror and found I needed to have root's access permissions. > > > So I out of KDE -- log back in as root -- do what I need -- > > > and log back in as a normal user (myself). > > > > Way too complicated. First of all, there should be a menu item K > > -> System -> File manager (Superuser). And then you can start > > any program as any user with kdesu. Just press Alt+F2 and hit > > the Settings button, where you can specify which user should be > > used. > > well..until that happens > > kdesu konqueror
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. But I'm worried. What sort of magic does kdesu do? As console (konsole, xterm) root, I can't run konqueror. alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server konqueror: cannot connect to X server :0
