| Summary: | Launching root dolphin from a desktop fails | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Juergen Harms <juergen.harms> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | balcaen.john, dmorganec, zen25000 |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | dolphin-4.6.1-4.mga1 | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
| Attachments: | Desktop item used for trying to launch root Dolphin | ||
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Description
Juergen Harms
2011-04-04 09:45:33 CEST
Created attachment 191 [details]
Desktop item used for trying to launch root Dolphin
The contents of this desktop item have been created by kmenuedit - no manual editing done.
It would be better to use /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu instead of sudo (some people don't have sudo installed/configured. CC:
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balcaen.john I think everyone is over complicating an easy task here. Simply create a standard launcher for Dolphin by dragging it's icon from the menu (kickoff) to the desktop or folder view and "copy here" Now right click the icon -> properties -> application tab -> advanced option -> check "run as different user" -> enter "root" OK, OK and it's done - works for me. CC:
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zen25000 More: much better, I agree - but kdesu did not work, at least on 32-bit systems. After your message I checked again - kdesu evidently got fixed in the meantime, sorry I did not check again before posting the bug. How about gnome users? I think, they normally do not install kdesu - I still do not manage to make sudo dolphin work. PS: the corrected kdesu is great, it now even allows to launch a root konsole! (In reply to comment #4) > How about gnome users? In the unlikely event that I wanted to run nautilus as root, I would launch it from a root terminal. Fedora has a thing called beesu, which I've never used, but I believe that it functions in a way similar to kdesu. Trying to do some summing up (profiting to iterate my point of view) (- - different users - different preferences, that is Unix - the distro provides a framework, in which each user can customise his environment needed for working as root (via creating desktop items, arranging them into menus ...) - since kdesu works now (if I understand right, using "advanced" -> "run as different user" is just another way to use kdesu), KDE users have a perfect solution for customising tools for working with root priviledge - the question remains whether gnome users have a similar general facility to customise their tools - I agree, launching from a root terminal is always possible, but second-best for me - how much more agreeable to be able to wrap such root functions into a desktop item, a menu-item if you need them frequently! Mageia is just defining "the feeling" of the coming release - asking for the availability of this kind of facility is an important issue. The question remains - does sudo <something> presently works - I have doubts, I just typed into a user terminal "sudo kwrite" - failure (I think to remember that it worked - say - 10 days back) - can sudo be used from a desktop item? - is that needed? (I think yes: as part of an infrastructure for customising tools with root-privilege. Gnome has gksu, which has not been imported yet. I've opened a request. Perhaps someone who has used gksu on mdv2010.1 could confirm my understanding that it is equivalent to kdesu: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640 With kdesu working and the request for gksu filed, I think this bug is not pertinant any more and can be closed. Sorry - I guess I should have launched this as a discussion in the forum before submitting a bug. tks closing. Status:
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RESOLVED (In reply to comment #8) Juergen - here's an icon for you ;-) http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n287/barjac_2006/th_root-system-file-manager.png |
