When using su, you cannot start graphical applications. That's because a graphical app has to somewhat authenticate to the graphic server to get allowance to show some graphic. That's a security function, so that no other user (which might be logged in remotely) get show up something on your screen, like a message box "Type in your root password to proceed" and fetch the output. When using sux, the authentication from the running konsole will be inherited to the root shell which you are starting with this command. Now you can start graphical applications as root. This way, you can start a konqueror instance which has root priviledges (not fine, but well, at the end it's not the whole KDE runing as root). For the linux command shell beginnings, I suggest reading the manual of your distribution or google for beginner guides. I did a quick google and found e.g. this one: http://www.merrowinternet.com/downloads/starter.pack/linux.intro.html There are thousand others but all will have this and that command which is different on SuSE and the other way round. Just keep your brain running when trying examples. Best, Daniel Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 20:51 schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
Peter Buckenleib wrote:
Hi Mr(s) Shriramana Sharma
It's Mr. :)
login as root might be dangerous, but some tools provide graphical installers that should to be run as root.
Thanks, but I wish to make clear that I don't want to do stuff like browse the net as root. Just pop in, do stuff with YaST, pop out, and back to user account before touching the net.
To do this i enter 'sux root' in a terminal window, and then i start that tool.
Is there a difference between su and sux?
Thanks.
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