[kde-linux] conversion to su

[Dan Stroock]

Jim:  Yes, that's exactly what I want.  However, when I tried your 
suggestion, I got the same error message saying "Conversation with su 
failed."  Something must be set incorrectly, but I don't know what.

                                  Dan

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, James Loughner wrote:

> Not sure what you want. Let me guess.
> You want to start an app that must be run as root from that KDE desktop????
> 
> If so use
> 
> kdesu theappname
> 
> This will prompt you for the root password and then run the app as root.
> 
> Is this what you were looking for???
> 
> Jim
> 
> Dan Stroock wrote:
> > I am running the kde3 which is included in SuSE 10.3 distrubution.  When I 
> > attempt to run any application which requires conversion to su I get an 
> > error message that the conversion has failed.  Is there a way to fix this?
> >
> >                                       Dan Stroock
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