Konqueror in SU mode

[Dave Feustel]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:59:21AM -0400, 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.

Login as root, run startkde, when kde comes up, click on konqueror icon.
You will have to kill kdm before launching startkde.