Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige [SOLVED]

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 28/12/11 13:11, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 28/12/11 12:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > On 28/12/11 11:00, Lisi wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 December 2011 10:11:21 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > > > However, kdesu doesn't seem to appear in the standard squeeze
> > > > repositories; any clues as to where to find it?
> > >
> > > It's part of KDE and Trinity. There is also gksu for Gnome.
> >
> > Many thanks for the tip, Lisi.
> >
> > Still can't find kdesu, but gksu works fine, and lets me edit files with
> > root privs.
> Bah, spoke too soon!
> It worked the first time, but now it crashes with message:
>
> tony@tony-lx:~$ gksu dolphin /etc
> dolphin(15177) KXMLGUI::ActionList::plug: Index 13 is not within range
> (0 - 9
> WARNING: deleting stale lockfile /root/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc.lock
>
> Found kdesu, though; it's at
> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
Which didn't help the problem in hand.

However, More googling revealed
$xhost local:
to allow any user on the local machine (in particular, root) access to 
the X-server.

Lo and behold, having done this, putting "dolphin /etc" in the kde menu, 
with "run as different user" ticked, causes Dolphin to run as superuser, 
and clicking on a file name opens that file in kwrite, with superuser privs.

Wheyhey!

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