HOWTO? run k3b as root

[Bill Mullen]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:03:03 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:

> My sugestion may not have been clear.  What I have
> in mind is that you start a normal KDE session as a
> nonprivileged user, with all the usual GUI glop on the
> screen that KDE normally presents when you do that.
> (It might even make sense to verify that you can start
> normal X clients like xclock from an xterm that's
> part of that session before proceeding with the rest
> of this.)  Then, from that xterm (that's still part
> of that nonpriveleged X session) you'd say:
> 
>   ssh -X root at localhost
> 
> ...which should start an SSH client that'll connect
> to your local SSH server and arrange for X traffic
> from the root session to be tunneled back through
> your unprivileged X session to the X server, to which
> you have already authenticated yourself.
> 
> Make sure your local SSH server hasn't been instructed
> to block X traffic, BTW.

In the interests of further clarity, perhaps it's worth adding that once
one is looking at the root prompt, the command to run at said prompt is
"k3b", and not "startx".

-- 
Bill Mullen
RLU #270075