Konqueror in SU mode

[Anne Wilson]

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
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