Konqueror in SU mode

[Jim]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 13:59:21 Jim wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 26 August 2008 23:21:52 Jim wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:50:52PM -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> FC9, Kde-4.1
>>>>>> How do I run Konqueror as Super User.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> This is a Very Bad Idea. KDE and Konqueror have security holes.
>>>>> I write this as one who prefers Konqueror to all other browsers
>>>>> and KDE to any other desktop I've tried.
>>>>> .
>>>>>           
>>> Details?  I haven't heard of this, and would be surprised if any security
>>> flaws had not been dealt with in the usual way.
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> If you need to run a browser as root, log in on a virtual console
>>>>> and run lynx.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> It is very different to run konquerorSU in KDE-4.1 than KDE 3.5.
>>>>>> If I open SU in Console and then try to run /usr/bin/konqueror, it
>>>>>> won't run.
>>>>>>             
>>>> I don't want to run Konqueror as a SU browser, I want run Konqueror as a
>>>> SU Filemanager.
>>>>         
>>> It must be in the kickstart menu somewhere, but it's well hidden.  I have
>>> it on the Favorites page, so I must have found it, but I can't say where.
>>> Mandriva put it under Tools > System Tools - maybe I'm just not seeing it
>>> in Fedora?  Anyway, if you can't find it, the other way is to launch it
>>> from a root konsole - nothing special needed that way.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>       
>> I have tried to launch it as SU from the console but it won't start in FC9.
>>     
>
> Two possibilities, then.  Maybe you forgot to use '-' ('su -') or maybe it is 
> not in your path, so you need the full path (/bin/su).  I don't do this 
> directly because I have a root terminal profile which already has this set.
>
> Anne
>   
su -   didit

Thanks, Jim