Today I wanted to do some administrative tasks as root. Since I adopted Mandrake 10 as my Linux distribution i used kdesu. Nowadays "kdesu dolphin". Today this does not work anymore. Neither does "kdesu kwrite". Using Konsole I got:
[erikjan@ejvw-main ~]$ su
Wachtwoord:
[root@ejvw-main erikjan]# dolphin
Executing Dolphin as root is not possible.
[root@ejvw-main erikjan]#
Looking for this on the internet I found that this is something new in the recent KDE versions.
I always thought that root had full permissions to do what is necessary, or even to destroy the system! Now I seem to have got some KDE developer as a nanny to tell me I do not have the authority to do things the way I prefer. This is a shame. I am grown up and used to make my own decisions, foolish or wise.
I also use XFCE with Thunar. With Thunar I cannot execute shell scripts by double clicking on them.
Why all this? We are not children!
At least the developers could have given us a choice. This would have been according to the tradition of Linux.
Is there some way for the Mageia developers to edit out this restriction on Dolphin, or is there some work around? Or should I look for some other desktop that does not treat users/administrators as irresponsible children?
Greetings,
Erik.