On Saturday 10 January 2004 17:55, Lanman wrote: > Anne; When you SU to root from a normal user, you're > essentially still in the normal user's environment and > "calling" the root owned application. KDE would have to > save the profile setting for "root's" konqueror in "anne's" > profile, and it can't or shouldn't be able to do that. Even > using "su -" and changing to the "root" environment will > give you the same results. Sorry! > > Someone else might have an idea on how to get around this, > but I think this is "part and parcel" of the Mandrake > "Mentality" ( as I call it ), to prevent normal users from > loggin in as root users. Notice that the user "root" is no > longer showing up on the login menu? That's what I'm > talking about. I don't think it was ever possible to save > these profile settings in a normal users profile or to save > them for the root user. I might be wrong, though. It might > be possible to create a new Konqueror profile and call it > "When I'm SU'd as root user". > Sounds as though the only way is to log in directly as root, then save that profile in Konq. Not the way I'd like to do it, though. It goes against the grain of telling everyone that you never need to log in as root, doesn't it?
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