Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:14:12 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: arnab bhowmick <arnabbhowmick111@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use "kdesu" in KDE Message-ID: <20150411211412.c8e802ba.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150411190312.GA2366@c720-r276659> References: <CAGk=YH45E5S7S-9P53eoKJbYce82iVD1950gDfNMvDqab1D4xA@mail.gmail.com> <20150411205533.6b65d4b3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150411190312.GA2366@c720-r276659>
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:03:12 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hmmm: > > $ kdesu date > sh: kdesu: not found Thanks for verifying! Interesting that it's not part of KDE anymore... On the other hand, I remember that KDE had some built-in means to "switch to root" (at least on Linux), but I cannot remember where this option was located or how it was called. Interesting... > But, who needs 'kdesu' is you have a terminal, xterm, ... and 'su' Right; "su" should work for almost everything. On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:31:29 +0530, arnab bhowmick wrote: > thanks friend. But kdesu or su- is not working As we know now, "kdesu" doesn't seem to be available anymore... no idea... But you should be able to use "su" without problems. Open a terminal (KDE's "Konsole" or simply run "xterm") and enter: su root What happens? (You can copy/paste from the terminal session.) Please note: You have to add your user to the "wheel" group if you want to su to root (just entering "su" will default to root, if no other username is provided; "su -" and "su -l" means the same; see "man su" for details). In order to make this change, switch to a virtual terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+PF1 and login as root. Then enter: pw usermod -G wheel <name> where <name> is your own user name. You can also manually add the name to the "wheel" line in /etc/group. Then logout again ("exit"). Switch back to your X session by pressing Ctrl+Alt+PF9. The change is in effect immediately. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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