Permission Problems

[Jim]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> mickey wrote:
>
>   
>> mickey wrote:
>>     
>>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>       
>>>> lanzen wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>         
>>>>> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 18:41:54 Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Use "kdesu konqueror" instead.
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>>> No joy.  ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> But it's got something to do
>>>>> with permissions, doesn't it?
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> The question is: Does it start Konqueror as root? When I use "kdesu
>>>> konqueror" from Konsole, I get the same error messages but it does
>>>> start konqueror as root. Therefore I don't see a real problem. Many
>>>> KDE programs have lots of meaningless error messages when startet
>>>> from a terminal - and I ignore the error messages unless there is
>>>> really something not working.
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> It starts Konqueror, but not su, because if I try to edit I don't have
>>> write permissions in / .
>>>       
>
> I see.  Actually you're barking up the wrong tree.  The messages you
> included have nothing to do with the problem.
>
> Konqueror (or whatever app) actually _does_ start with root privs.  You can
> verify this by going to /tmp, right click in there and choose "Create New"
> to create any kind of file.  It will do it and you'll see it is owned by
> root.root.  However, if you right click on that file and choose to open
> with Kate, _Kate_ gets kicked off with your privs!
>
> # ps aux | grep konq
> ...
> root     10942  0.5  2.7  52780 27940 pts/0    S+   18:24   0:02 konqueror
> ...
>
> # ps aux | grep kate
> derek    10986  7.2  2.2  41624 23580 ?        S    18:30   0:01 kate
> [kdeinit] --use /tmp/Text File
>
>   
I see what your saying, I created a text file, but I could'nt even edit 
with kwrite.