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Hello
now with Magéia 6I cannot log me as root in dolphin
Before I pressed ALT F2 and type kdesu Dolphin.
It seems that under mageia6 the entry window is used to search but no longer serves to send orders?
How to proceed to log as root with DOLPHIN?

please open a terminal, change to root ( su -(enter), password (enter), dolphin)

GUI will launch with / at top of GUI.

Not kdesu, but a near same outcome.

its seems to don't work ?

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lajoiejp@localhost ~]$ su
Mot de passe :
[root@localhost lajoiejp]# dolphin
QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /run/user/1000, 1000 instead of 0
"Session bus not found\nTo circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)\nexport $(dbus-launch)"
[root@localhost lajoiejp]#

I learnt this on this forum myself.

Make sure sudo is installed
Then at /etc/sudoer
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands

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<your user>    ALL=(ALL)    ALL

Then

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sudo ln -s  /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu

taboutanche wrote:its seems to don't work ?

It should be

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lajoiejp@localhost ~]$ su -

Note the space and dash.

gohlip wrote:Make sure sudo is installed
Then at /etc/sudoer
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands

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<your user>    ALL=(ALL)    ALL

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sudo ln -s  /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu

You advise to install and configure sudo, just to create a symlink? Doesn't make much sense and that is totally overkill, you can do the same thing as root via

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su - -c "ln -s /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu"

You advise to install and configure sudo, just to create a symlink?

Well, not just to make that sym-link.
After installing sudo, we can use sudo without having to be root (su -) for other commands...like,
sudo grub2-install /dev/sda
sudo rm <file>
sudo <whatever>

Makes sense now?

[edit] - Also I don't think we can "kdesu <whatever gui>" without being in the sudoers (wheel) group.
Makes double sense.