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Re: "su" Capability Needed In Konqueror



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



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