super user mode filemanager

[Roberto H. Alsina]

On Thu, Mar 06 2003 at 12:41:19pm +0100, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:10:31AM +0100, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > hiya all,
> > 
> > just noticed in the kmenu that you can 
> > open a root started filemanager. not
> > only is this slow due to the need to 
> > start up a thousand and one things as 
> > root, but also, its imo a really ugly 
> > way of doing it.
> > 
> > so, 
> > how about a fish:/root at localhost instead?
> 
> I like the idea, although I see one disadvantage: It requires a
> running sshd...

#!/bin/sh

if ps aux | grep ssh | grep -v grep
then
	kfmclient fish:/root at localhost
else
	kdesu kfmclient /
fi

Ok, not exectly that, but you get the idea ;-)


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