Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Um, thanks, but how does this help me to login graphically as root using KDE?
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".
Shiramana, The quickes way to do a lot of things graphically as root is to work from a konqueror session that is started as user root. As others have explained you can start this by typing 'sux' in a terminal and then launch konqueror, or do it via 'kdesu konqueror'. Actually SuSE provides this already in the Systems -> Filemanager menu. There you find the Filemanager (root mode) that opens konqueror while graphicaly working as root (note: names can be a littlebit different - i translated from a dutch system). Now you can navigate to /etc and open/change a textfile with kwrite by (right)clicking on it. Some usefull tips: - via (toolbar ->) Window -> Split window vertically you get two windows and via drag and drop you van move/copy/link files and groups of files and diectories. - via (toolbar ->) Tools -> Open terminal you can open a terminal in root mode without having to enter the password again. - In (toolbar ->) Options you can save profiles pointing to specific directories. I very often use this to change the 'Icon' view konqueror uses by default to a 'Detailed list view' Nice isn't it?! Actually this is what i very much miss while working with windows, next to not having multiple desktops.. And being able to open e text terminal via ctrl - alt - F#. And of course YaST can be opened as a user - it is also in the system menu. Peter Vollebregt