Konqueror in SU mode

[Jim]

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.