Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

[Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins <iuri.guilherme.dev@gmail.com>]

Em 27-12-2011 12:49, Tony van der Hoff escreveu:
> 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. 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'."
>
> 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 should use gksu
Or gksudo
To launch applications with root in a graphical environment.

But it seems that either kwrite is not located under /usr/bin or your 
kdeinit is not properly configured. Or maybe the kwrite binary has the 
wrong permissions.

You can tell if kwrite is on the proper place and have the proper 
permissions by $ ls -l /usr/bin/kwrite
It should print something like -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 686640 Fev 27  
2011 /usr/bin/kwrite

If the -rwxr-xr-x part is not right you can chmod rx+a w+u /usr/bin/kwrite
If nothing appears, you should find the kwrite binary and put it on te 
proper place (or tell kdeinit to look where it is).