On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 11:15 +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:01:37AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Henning Larsen <hennlar <at> start.no> writes: > > > Is there any way to do su in X? > > > > The easiest way is to use kdesu (in kdebase). > > > Surely it's also pretty easy to su to root in a terminal window and > then run the required application from the root command line (or in > the case in question just create the folders/directories using the > su'ed comaand line). > > -- Thanks. OK, about creating folders using the su command, can you please explain a bit more? I want to as a regular user be able to edit config files. The safest would be to get prompted for password, but it is not a must. Henning Larsen