kdesu? 8.10

[Martin Laberge]

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 13:36:04 Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> > Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> >> Nigel Ridley wrote:
> >>   
> >>> What happened to kdesu in KDE4?
> >>>
> >>> I need to start konqueror in admin mode (as 'root'/'su') to add a directory.
> >>>
> >>> TIA
> >>>
> >>> Nigel
> >>>
> >>>     
> >> it's kdesudo now,
> >>
> >>   
> > Start the Terminal, and then type in su - , then password, then type in 
> > konqueror as root.
> > 
> > 
> 
> i'm afraid that won't work, it would complain about something like
> couldn't find an X server or something, "sudo konqueror" in terminal, or
> "kdesudo konqueror" in the run dialog are his options
> 

To work, you have to issue the command

xhost +

in user mode, 

then you will be able to connect from root mode (with a warning)




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