Accessing the File Manager GUI in Fedoa as a root

[zedan85]

How could i browse the fles in GUI as a root . Whenever i acess certain folders i am told i do not have root so i am forced to access those folders from the terminal

[hazel]

Why not launch the file manager as root, from a terminal or from the run command on the main menu? You don't say what desktop you use, but in Gnome, the command would be gksu nautilus. In KDE it would probably be something like kdesudo konqueror.

Once you had the command working, you could create a desktop launcher for it.

[zedan85]

Thanks that sounds like a great idea.. I am using GNOME 3

[zedan85]

Looks like fedora doesnt come with gksu as a default built in package ??

[atreyu]

You could run it with plain old su, e.g.:

su - -c 'nautilus -n --no-desktop'

[MikeTbob]

Why not launch the file manager as root, from a terminal or from the run command on the main menu? You don't say what desktop you use, but in Gnome, the command would be gksu nautilus. In KDE it would probably be something like kdesudo konqueror.

Once you had the command working, you could create a desktop launcher for it.

I believe the correct command would be

kdesu konqueror

[zedan85]

Gnome 3 - fedora 15

There is no kdesu by default in fedora 15. Do we have to add it ??

[jayd512]

Since you're using Gnome, have you tried:

gksu nautilus

kdesu will only work if you have installed KDE.

[zedan85]

Yeah gksu does not work either

[jayd512]

I haven't run Fedora in a while... what about gksudo?