[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu

[Karl Buckland]

You should use gksudo to run graphical programs as another user (default
root).

2008/7/14 Peter Frost <P.Frost at kent.ac.uk>:

> There's also kdesu for X apps - "kdesu kate" will load the Kate editor with
> root privileges. I've been told that one shouldn't use regular "sudo" for X
> applications but I'm not entirely sure of the reasoning (seemed to work fine
> when I tried it).
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Apps wrote:
>
>> --Hi,
>>
>> I think youll find KDE4 is still under development and a lot of features
>> are still missing. KDE3 is the real stable version.
>>
>> Add sudo to commands like 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo sshfs.........' give
>> you root privileges and I use sudo -i to make me root user.
>>
>> Kubuntu does have a change user gui but it is loaded with one of the
>> extras packages.
>>
>> Regards, Peter.
>>
>
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