On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:59, Jim wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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 > > I have tried to launch it as SU from the console but it won't start in FC9. Hi Jim. I do have konquerorsu on my menu in F9. I'm using the classic menu, and it's found at "System>More applications>File Manager - Super "Dooper" User Mode. To change from the default "Kickoff" menu style, right click on the big "F", and change to classic mode. I have had problems where the su file manager wasn't on the menu on some distros, and opening Konsole, su'ing to root, then type gedit/kwrite/whatever, then navigate to /usr/share/applications/kde4/konquerorsu.desktop, and double click on it. Now I'm guessing a bit here. But a few lines down you may well see a line, as below. NoDisplay=true If it's there, change true to false, save, and it will by magic appear on KDE's menu, as above. The only caveat here, is that you may have to change back to the Kickstart menu first, then change back to the classic menu. I say this because the kickstart menu appears to show file changes, and then when you change to the classic menu the same file changes then show up on the classic menu (hope your following me here). The reason I say that I'm guessing above, is that /usr/share/applications/konquerorsu.desktop, shows no "NoDisplay line at all now, and just a line space, but I have had an update to KDE since I got the super "dooper" file manager on the menu, and perhaps the update seeing a line "NoDisplay=false", just replaced it with a line space. As I say, I'm guessing here, and havn't booted one of my other installs to check this out. Over to you Jim. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
