Guest abraxas Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Hi, I have just switched from Ubuntu to Mandriva/KDE (2009) and am wondering how I can open a file manager in superuser mode. Becoming superuser with su and then launching konqueror gives me a persistent error output of Could not delete file file:///root/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/autosave/owned_by., which I have no Idea how to stop.I then tried kdesu , as I read in this Mandriva forum that kdesu would be the way of launching an application in superuser mode. My terminal tells me, however that kdesu is a command it does not know. Can someone tell me how to start dolhin, or konqueror in superuser mode? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 kdesu foo is the right way to launch KDE apps in superuser mode. If you get the msg that kdesu isn't a known command, then you are probably missing some KDE packages from your installation. I have the impression that kdesu is part of the kdeadmin stuff, but since I don't use Mandriva I may be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 (edited) This is a kde4 feature, not a bug, the kde4 designers want you to use policykit instead of kdesu, nevermind the fact that policykit hasn't been integrated into kde4 yet, they already hid kdesu to some obscure path (something like /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdesu or something like that), I don't know where exactly and I am not using mdv at the moment either but it is this there...somewhere... Alternatively try to launch dolphin with su - (notice the trailing minus sign) Edited December 15, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abraxas Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Alternatively try to launch dolphin with su - (notice the trailing minus sign) Thanks, that did the trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 hate to be stupid but i'm having the hardest time remembering the exact format of this command. is it "su - dolphin <enter> then root PW or is it:"su - <enter> root pw <enter> dolphin <enter> thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 The correct format is su - root dolphin note the spaces. One after su and one after - and another after root. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 su - root "foo"or su -c "foo" amounts to the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alfred Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Thank you for the tip. I am using KDE4.3 now with MDV2009.1 PWP For dolphin to work as root, this suggestion worked for me: su - Password dolphin The other suggestions didn't work in KDE4.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 (edited) There's also a .rpm install here: Root Actions Service Menu that will add right-click Root Actions to the service menus of Dolphin and Konqueror. Edit: Root Actions Service Menu is also available in the Contrib Backports. Edited September 1, 2009 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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