running programs as root in KDE

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 15 20:42:33 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 10:32 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > why you need something as root does nobody know except you
> > and would you explain us what is "screwy"?
> 
> I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that 
> requires root access.

He should be able to do that using sudo or by becoming root through su -
Evidently that latter method does not work in KDE, which makes no sense
to me.
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