[RESOLVED] How do you open Dolphin w/ root permission

[spiderman]

How do you open Dolphin w/ root permission? Sometime when I plug in a drive I'm unable to delete or move files.

[Beerislife]

I usually install krusader and use sudo krusader, but I found this:

[TWPonKubuntu]

I use this command on the desktop icon:

pkexec env 'DISPLAY=$DISPLAY' 'XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY' KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true dolphin /

[kc1di]

As TWponKubuntu has said. I use that script as a command and create a dolphin as root entry in my menu. Works great. But be careful.

[Bings]

If you have this package

sudo apt install kio-admin

Then when in a folder you want to do editing in type "admin://" at the front of the location.

[kc1di]

If you have this package

sudo apt install kio-admin

Then when in a folder you want to do editing in type "admin://" at the front of the location.

That package is not available on 22.04.3 Which vesion of kabuntu are you using?

[kc1di]

For most files you can open it in dolphin make changes and it will ask you for your PW when you try to save it. There are a few directories that can not be open with dolphin. But with the script or command that was given it lets you open them in root instance. And as someone else has said you can install a different file manager if you want and ope it with sudo. We have choices.

[Qqmike]

Sometime when I plug in a drive I'm unable to delete or move files.

That suggests that thumb drive is owned by root? but it was supposed to be your personal thumb drive? Suggests you can change the ownership and permissions on the thumb drive. maybe?

[claydoh]

Sometime when I plug in a drive I'm unable to delete or move files.

If using a Linux file system, it will by default have root permissions, not user ones. When using a USB or other removable media, it may be better to use fat/Exfat or NTFS, in most cases. This depends on what the drive is being used for, though.
Otherwise, one needs to (manually) set permissions on the drive's mount point.

Newer versions of Partition Manager (Kubuntu 23.04) have an option to allow all users access when creating partitions, so this can be a useful option.

[Bings]

That package is not available on 22.04.3 Which vesion of kabuntu are you using?

You can get it by adding backports to 22.04.

[spiderman]

I'm using 23.04. I learned to keep o/s up to date...

[Snowhog]

See https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages...::FAQ.3pm.html

[spiderman]

So far, I like the Krusader Option, I use Dolphin to select files to move because I like the GUI better, but moving the files with sudo krusader works. It solves the problem. Now I have to read my previous questions (in the forum) because I am going to zero out these drives and donate them. Anyone need old spinner hard drives?>?>?