From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 23:51:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4009A16A420 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:51:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3C813C459 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.189] (port=40868 helo=smtp2.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQAL1-0006DR-Ly for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:51:27 +0100 Received: from cp1228410-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.217.164]:62474 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp2.groni1.gr.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQAL1-00045l-6S for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:51:27 +0100 Received: by desktop.homenet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:50:42 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:50:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080214194543.D4BE72F5A4@xprdmxin.myway.com> <200802150204.34188.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: X-Face: (Zs+'ncTcchkOX|~t6{?Iii=O!G#WEK!+OD0|-F=i%1pvP5V_Sz4PaJC8o)=?utf-8?q?MiSnH/JMJFy=0A=09oBN-My?=, v":S7, (=?utf-8?q?mmkPm=27U=7BMgT+eM=2EBd=5Cp/P!dr=5DhOTXqpse21O!=25Ct=60SE=2EOodq?= =?utf-8?q?=5Dry=5E=23kU=5E=0A=09-?=GT.[8D}i$6P>=" =?utf-8?q?=23=0A=09*J+4d=7E?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802160050.42264.danny@ricin.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) Subject: Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:51:29 -0000 On Friday 15 February 2008 05:27:01 Jona Joachim wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:04:33 +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008 20:45:43 Piotr wrote: > >> if I try to start File Manager - Super User Mode, I put the root > >> password and then I'm getting a lot of the following errors: > >> > >> There was an error loading the module Navigation Panel. The diagnostics > >> is: > >> file not found > >> > >> There was an error loading the module Print Management Tool. The > >> diagnostics is: > >> file not found > >> > >> There was an error loading the module KSVGPlugin. The diagnostics is: > >> file not found > >> > >> There was an error loading the module Icon View. The diagnostics is: > >> file not found > >> > >> There was an error loading the module KHTML. The diagnostics is: > >> file not found > >> > >> etc. > > > > Hmm, it's possible that if you startx (and kde) as root once this stuff > > will go away. I suggest you try that. > > Please don't start X as root. Don't start kde or konqueror as root > either, not even as a file manager. Use ls(1). > It's really not reasonable to start more processes than really needed as > root. It's one of the most basic Unix credos and there are reasons for it. The primary Unix directive though is to empower the user and let them do whatever they like, including shooting themselves in the foot :) Besides, any (X) desktop should be properly firewalled and occasionally running X or certain X apps as root on it shouldn't be harmful. Though of course, generally I agree that you shouldn't run X or any X app as root. In this particular case, it seems that changing permissions on the appropriate directories (maybe for one special group only and add the user to that group) would be the proper way to solve this. But that's not what the OP asked. Cheers, Dan Dan