Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (249 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 22:24 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 
> >> Um, thanks, but how does this help me to login graphically as root using
> >> KDE?
> > 
> > Why do you want to do something that stupid, and then maybe I'll tell you?! 
> 
> Will someone please explain WHY logging in graphically to root is 
> stupid, and logging in textually to root is NOT stupid?
> 
> > Root services are available while as a user, you DON'T need to login as root.
> 
> Yeah okay. I loadup Konqueror while logged into my user account. I 
> browse to /etc and right-click fstab and say: "Open using Kate". Presto! 
> Kate opens it but says it's readonly. Konqueror was opened in root mode. 
> Not Kate. And I don't have a KDE Menu Item that says "Open Kate in SU 
> Mode" like I have "Open Konqueror in SU mode" or "Open Konsole in SU Mode".

kdesu konqueror, only use root permissions when you _have_ to.  It's
part of the security philosophy.