running programs as root in KDE

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/15/2011 11:41 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Ok, I'll bite. What is kdesu and why does it have to run in this
>> context? Sounds screwy to me.
> A "su" function for "kde"...  As to why is something special needed,
> rather than just "su -" in a terminal, the the program name, as other
> desktops do?  I don't know, maybe there's something special about KDE
> not allowing GUI operations as root.
>

I'm a long time KDE user and I've never used kdesu.

I either run "su -" to drop me into a shell with root privileges or
"sudo" to run a single command.

So many ways to do the same thing.....  :-)

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