On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Steffen Barszus wrote: > >Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 23:43 schrieb Brant Fitzsimmons: > >>Bill Mullen wrote: > >>>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > >>>>Felix Miata wrote: > >>>>>Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way > >>>>> to tell mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular > >>>>> user. > >>>> > >>>>As far as I know there is no way to do so. This was the > >>>> subject of very heated discussions during 9.0 development. > >>> > >>>It *can* be done, and fairly easily, as well. > >>> > >>>The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full > >>> X session as root?" ... > >> > >>Because they want the convenience of full access to all files as > >> with a console prompt running as root without the need to know > >> how to use the command line. > > > >Bad reason under K-menu => applications => file tools or whatever > > it is called in english you can start konqueror in root-modus. > > The mandrake-tools can be accessed to from a normal login in > > various ways. There is no reason. to start X as root. > > > >Steffen > > Bad or not, it's still a reason.
File Manager Super User Mode in kde gives exactly that. Anne
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