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
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