* Jim Flanagan [11-15-09 22:50]:

Yup, that's what I'm seeing. It did work properly only once. Curious. And when file manager opens, it opens to /home/user/Documents for some reason.

Known and reported problem. Open "Personal Settings" -> "About Me" -> "Paths" and set "Documents path:" to /home/<user> You will also notice that xterm, konsole, etc will default to opening in /home/<user>/Documents unless you do the above. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jim Flanagan [11-15-09 22:50]:

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Yup, that's what I'm seeing. It did work properly only once. Curious. And when file manager opens, it opens to /home/user/Documents for some reason.

Known and reported problem. Open "Personal Settings" -> "About Me" -> "Paths" and set "Documents path:" to /home/<user>

You will also notice that xterm, konsole, etc will default to opening in /home/<user>/Documents unless you do the above.

Is there a way to set it to open with root privileges? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 11/19/2009 03:14 PM, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:26 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote:

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Is there a way to set it to open with root privileges?

Hope I understand what you asked :)

Open the K menu editor /system/Terminal Choose the one you want to open as root /Advance check run as different users username: root

Save

The next time you click it will ask you for the root password and open the terminal as root.

What I wanted was File Manager - Super User Mode, not terminal. I used your suggestion to edit that and in the Advanced tab manually entered root as the user, and saved. However this did not fix the problem. File Manager - Super User Mode asks for root password, but still won't allow access to root level files.

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If you use the krunner (Alt-F2) you can type kdesu xterm

for example and the same will happens

-=terry=-

Not sure how to translate this to File Manger, but thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 11/19/2009 03:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

On Sunday 15 November 2009 09:24:11 pm John Andersen wrote:

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On Sunday 15 November 2009 03:53:55 pm Jim Flanagan wrote:

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I did a fresh install of oS11.2 on a freshly formatted partiton, default KDE. When I open File Manager - Super User Mode, it does not allow access to root files. I tried this several times, and only once did it function properly. The other times fail to access the file. I did not do anything differently, just opening File Manager - Super User Mode while logged in as a regular user. It does as for root password (different than the user password), but won't allow file access. I can see the files, but not open them.

Any thoughts welcome.

Jim F

I'm seeing the same thing. You can browse to /root (for example) but you can neither copy or open any file. Any subordinate task is launched by the user (not superuser), and as such the task can't even see the file.

Did you create a real root password during install, or did you just use the default settings where the first user is kind of a "super user"?

I created a traditional root account on install and I can browse, copy, "do whatever" with the files in /root using File Manager - Super User Mode.

I did as you, set my normal user as one, with a separate password for root. logged in as User, opening File Manager - Super User Mode brings up the screen to enter root password, and I do. But it won't allow access to root level files. I can browse, see the file, click to open in say, Kwrite or something, but then get an error message saying could not open Kwrite. If I'm logged in a root them of course no problem, only when logged in a User.

I also set kdesurc to use sudo as super user, so I am not prompted for a password to access root applications (yast included). The old trick of entering the following in alt+f2 or in a normal user konsole does the trick:

kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user- command sudo

(all one line)

Of Course you must configure sudo first by running 'visudo' and uncommenting the following line:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

and then adding yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group.

Are you saying here that by making this change, you then don't have to enter a root password to get to yast? Why would you want to do that? What's the difference between this an just logging is a root? Perhaps I'm not clear on sudo. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 11/19/2009 07:01 PM, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

On Thursday 19 November 2009 05:51:30 pm Jim Flanagan wrote:

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ogged in as User, opening File Manager - Super User Mode brings up the screen to enter root password, and I do. But it won't allow access to root level files. I can browse, see the file, click to open in say, Kwrite or something, but then get an error message saying could not open Kwrite.

Jim,

I see the same problem. I can rename a file etc but kwrite does not work neither I can open a terminal from the menu. As I said in another message I use krusader when I need root access so I have never noticed this problem. I

-=terry=-

Thanks for the feedback. I've never heard of krusader, will look into that as an option. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:29 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

I created a traditional root account on install and I can browse, copy, "do whatever" with the files in /root using File Manager - Super User Mode.

David, The same here however, kwrite does not work and produce an error when you try to open a text file within dolphin, If I tried to launch the terminal from the menu nothing happens. In summary it works but not as complete as when I load it as user. Something is not right with it. Again for me is not important because I do not use those facilities from inside dolphin. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org