Sami A. Kutbi wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with
> out logout and login out from user...
> Thanks for the help
Bring up a terminal window and su to root
su root
or just
su
Then, you'll be prompted for the root password and until you close the
window or run
exit
you'll be working as root.
If you want to do a complete login as root, to be placed in root's home
directory, instead of remaining in the directory currently the present one
in the terminal window, then add the -l option
su -l {user}
where in your case {user} would be root.
Adding the -l option runs or sources the login scripts of the user you su
to, eg., .bashrc, and makes your present working directory (pwd) the home
directory of that user, as if you had logged in to that account from the
initial login prompt.
With the -l, these scripts are sourced or run and you don't change
directories until you explicitly do a cd.
If -l doesn't do this, then read the man page on su
man su
-l is what was used on Unix and I believe to have used it a couple or few
times in Linux, but do it so rarely that I'm guessing that I'm remembering
correctly. Definitely -l on Unix, though.
mike
