On Wednesday 20 December 2006 22:44, Peter Cannon wrote: > Hi All > > I've installed Arkeia smart backup on opensuse 10.2, I run Gnome > desktop and have added the launcher to the menu list ( > /usr/bin/arkeiasb ) How do I make it run as root? > > Under KDE you had the option to run as a different user i.e root > but that seems to not be available under Gnome. I tried su - > /usr/bin/arkeiasb but that failed to work, I can start the GUI as > a normal user but I need to run as root.
In KDE, instead of su, I would use kdesu. I know GNOME has (used to have?) something similar, probably gnomesu (that's in my /opt/gnome/bin/). Run it in an xterm to see the options if you need to. Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
