Changing to root in konqi

[James Gray]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 05:23 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 5/29/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Dotan Cohen
> > > http://what-is-what.com
> >
> > When I'm in konqueror and want to edit a file as root there is an option
> > in to do that,
> > you right click on the file and in the "Actions" sub-menu click on "Edit
> > as Root"
> >
> > Terence Simpson
>
> Yes, but sometimes I want to browse as root. For instance, for some
> reason there was a file that user could not delete in the /home/user/
> directory. So I had to delete it as root.

Make up your mind - you can't have it both ways :)

What you are wanting is a single program to escalate and drop privileges on 
the fly at the user's prompting.  This is NOT supported in Konquerer (and is 
non-trivial to implement too!).  You either browse as root (ALT-F2, "kdesu 
konqueror") or you edit as root as Tez described earlier in this thread.

Hope that clears it up :)

James
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