Changing to root in konqi

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Tue May 30 04:18:48 UTC 2006


"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> If I'm browsing the filesystem in Konqi, how can I change myself to
> the superuser? Or must I "sudo konqueror" from the command line in
> order to browse the system as root?.
>
> I know the danger, but sometimes I want to do that, for instance to
> edit fstab, or to explore the linux filesystem. Thanks.

I've been readin the thread, and I don't think you can do exactly what
you are asking for. But what you can do is execute a command inside the
konq.

For instance, say you want to delete a file that you have selected.
Ctrl-E (or Tools->Execute Command)
then type
kdesu rm <file>

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John L. Fjellstad
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