Root

[michellembrodeur]

Trying to kill a process using KDE- System Guard Process Table. But you have to be root to kill Adept. Seem sI got like 4 of them running.

But you cannot be root runing programs. At least I cannot.

Tried to make a new user account and have root permission.

How?

Please don't bother to tell me being root is not safe. there is just to many things you have to be root to do. Just modifying or even installign games you ahve to be root. its a pain.

So how do I make a root account or run programs as root.

thanks

[a_l_a_n]

Re: Root

Are you the administrator of the machine? I mean, during the installation an initial user is created (was that you?). That users password is enough to get root privileges. From a command line you could use:

$ sudo killall adept

Youll be prompted for the password.

If you want to run a konsole session as root, use:

$ sudo -s

If you want to launch KDE apps as root, e.g. Kate, use:

$ kdesu kate

That help at all?

[michellembrodeur]

Re: Root

Are you the administrator of the machine? I mean, during the installation an initial user is created (was that you?). That users password is enough to get root privileges. From a command line you could use:

$ sudo killall adept

Youll be prompted for the password.

If you want to run a konsole session as root, use:

$ sudo -s

If you want to launch KDE apps as root, e.g. Kate, use:

$ kdesu kate

That help at all?

Thanks

YEs I was the one who install Dapper.
But sometimes its hard to find what an app is actually called. Liek the one I used, mentioned above is actually called kdm. but how ae use supposed to know that.

Someone should come up with a list of what actually programs are called so people can use them as root (sudo)

thanks again.