On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:58:56PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > >On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > >>According to http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#rootedit > >>, In Ubuntu one can edit the text files as root using the "Edit as Root" > >>option. But I could not find this option in Debian unstable KDE 3.5.2 . > >>How can I achieve this behavior in Debian as well? > >> > > > >kdesu kate <name of file> from the command line should work. > But that is from command line. I was looking for something that works > from say konqueror. > > However, if > >you are looking for a context menu option, you may have to add that > >yourself. I'm not a KDE user, so I forget how to do this offhand. If you > >right click on the file you are attempting to edit, I'm guessing you'll > >see an "open with" option that may allow you to specify a command to use > >to open that type of file. If you specify 'kdesu kate %f' it might work. > > > This is of no use because, let's say I am editing a file called file.txt > which is associated with, say, gvim. I want to use root permissions on > *.txt only when necessary. If I use your method, then kdesu will be > invoked with root permission even when it is not necessary. > > For example to edit /etc/file.txt , I probably want to use root > permission. But to edit ~/file.txt I do not need root permissions. I can > edit as a normal user itself.
Its been over a year since I ran KDE and that was on a knoppix install, so sorry if this doesn't help. ISTR a "run as root" feature buried in the menu somewhere that allowed you to do your "NEXT" operation as root. I'm grasping at straws here, but I'm sure it was under an admin menu. Of course it could have just been a nice little sudo wrapper script or something. maybe this will stir someone else's memory. A > > thanks > raju > > -- > http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar > http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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