On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:42:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
Am having problems running KDE apps as root.
(...)
I do not know about exact reason why but...
Generally, it is bad idea to run desktop application as root. So
application
Hi,
I have to admit that for some desktop system with passwordless sudo
policy, you may not gain much security advantage by not using root,
since your user account is practically root in terms of security...
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 08:40:31AM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:42:13
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:57:11 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
I have to admit that for some desktop system with passwordless sudo
policy, you may not gain much security advantage by not using root,
since your user account is practically root in terms of security...
¿?
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at
On Friday 01 July 2011 21:07:25 T Elcor wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to
Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different
user checkbox
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote:
...
I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root.
You can create new account from GUI, too.
When I need to test if there is a configuration issue with the browser
(or my Gnome profile), I launch it as root because it has an
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:18:32 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: ...
I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root.
You can create new account from GUI, too.
Yes, and I was just talking from my POV and a concrete scenario. I know
how
On 07/01/11 at 03:20pm, T Elcor wrote:
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote:
Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what
errors you get.
luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror
bash: kdesu: command not found
luser@testbox:~$ whereis kdesu
kdesu:
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
What you have described is not sufficient to enable a
hidden menu entry.
It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I
outlined, please
confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular
attention to step 2.*
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
What you have described is not sufficient to enable a
hidden menu entry.
It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I
outlined, please
confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular
attention to step 2.*
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:
Anyway, I just discovered I can't run konqueror from Alt+F2
even without switching the user
Never mind, it's fine.
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--- On Fri, 7/1/11, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste
Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a
different user checkbox
On 03/07/11 04:15, T Elcor wrote:
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com
wrote:
snipped
Yes, I missed the step 2. Now I've tried it and the File Manager -
Super User Mode behaves seemingly in the same non-functional way,
that is, shows up in the bottom launch
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
Also the output, if any, of:- $ dpkg
--get-selections sudo
$ dpkg --get-selections sudo No packages found
matching sudo
And yet you say it was originally enabled... (?) :-/
Yes, it was working a while ago
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different user checkbox
4. Type root in the username box
5. Save changes
6. Run
On Friday 01 July 2011 20:07:25 T Elcor wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to
Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different
user checkbox 4.
On Jul 1, 2011 3:07 PM, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to
Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different user
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, eqisow eqi...@gmail.com wrote:
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To
reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste
Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the
Run as a different user
On Friday 01 July 2011 22:17:57 T Elcor wrote:
Have you tried;
alt+F2 to get krunner (I think that it is called), then enter:
kdesu application-that-you-want-to-run-as-root enter
When I do Alt+F2, then type kdesu konqueror (without quotes) and then try
to press Enter nothing happens,
On 07/01/11 at 02:17pm, T Elcor wrote:
When I do Alt+F2, then type kdesu konqueror (without quotes) and then try
to press Enter nothing happens, pressing Enter doesn't seem to have any
effect. Have you tried it yourself?
Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what errors you get.
Am Freitag, 1. Juli 2011 schrieb William Hopkins:
On 07/01/11 at 02:17pm, T Elcor wrote:
When I do Alt+F2, then type kdesu konqueror (without quotes) and then
try to press Enter nothing happens, pressing Enter doesn't seem to
have any effect. Have you tried it yourself?
Try the same
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote:
Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what
errors you get.
luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror
bash: kdesu: command not found
luser@testbox:~$ whereis kdesu
kdesu: /usr/share/man/man1/kdesu.1.gz
luser@testbox:~$ which
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different
On 02/07/11 05:07, T Elcor wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different user checkbox
4. Type root
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you enable sudo during the install?
I had this functionality working a while ago (I use it only occasionally), but
then it stopped working. Maybe it was a security update that killed it or
perhaps something else.
On 02/07/11 14:20, T Elcor wrote:
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com
wrote:
Did you enable sudo during the install?
I had this functionality working a while ago (I use it only
occasionally), but then it stopped working. Maybe it was a security
update that
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