Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige
On 28/12/11 21:11, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 27/12/11 20:05, Don Juan wrote:
>> On 12/27/2011 07:49 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>> Bump this - Has anyone any suggestions, please?
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Running kwrite with root privelige
>>> Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:08 +0000 (UTC)
>>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:46:29 +0000
>>> From: Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>>
>>> Having done a bare-metal squeeze (KDE) reinstall after a major disk
>>> screw-up, things are just about working as they used to. One weird
>>> thing, however, which I fine seriously annoying:
>>>
>>> I can call sudo dolphin, which works as expected, and gives me root
>>> privs.
Just out of curiosity.... why??
(No I'm not going to give you a lecture about the security risks - it's
your machine)
>>> From this point, I used to be able to double-click on a text file
>>> to open it with root privs. I can no longer do so; the error message
>>> being "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'."
>> Couldn't you just use dolphin as root then just double click the file
>> you want to open and if Kwrite is the default text editor should open
>> just fine. Just worked for me but also sudo kwrite <file> works from
>> command line for me as well.
>>
>>>
>>> I can call "sudo kwrite <file>"; thus have a work-round, but does anyone
>>> know how to allow me to invoke it from dolphin?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Tony
>> You could also use kdesu as well, I recently switched to using that
>> overs sudo for those things.
>>
>> man kdesu
>>
>> Sorry if I miss understood what you were asking. Hope this helps some.
>>
>>
> Thanks; I'm not entirely sure that it'll help, but I'm willing to try.
> However, kdesu doesn't seem to appear in the standard squeeze
> repositories; any clues as to where to find it?
>
>
I don't believe it's a standalone anymore.
You can invoke it eg.:-
$ su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/kwrite
Cheers
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