Yast2

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 06:17, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:

>    I got a post from one of the list here, sux - root, then yast2 runs
> in a gui. That works great for me now. I think that tidbit might need to
> be on the steps some where. with out sux .... using just su I got the
> text version of yast2. If I logged in as root from the login, then all
> works fine.

Depends on the desktop. When I run on SUSE and KDE as non root (which is
all the time), I get a dialog box that asks me for the root password,
and the program starts. KDE uses the 'kdesu' wrapper. So on KDE (fron
SUSE at least) all these things are sorted out.

I do not know about GNOME. Or other desktops. I guess if SUSE did not
set up things like yast in a menu for your desktop, then you will need
to do these things yourself. Is there no guide on the desktop's home
page for setting up root GUI programs to run from a non-root shell?

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