Submitted 08-Jul-00 by Benjamin Sher:
> Dear friends:
>
> Recently I tried LM 7.1 (by downloading it by FTP). I liked some things
> and did not like others.
>
> ONE QUESTION: Have I missed something, or is it not true that LM 7.1
> does NOT have a GRAPHICAL SuperUser option on its menu as LM 7.0 does
> (under K, System, FileManager SuperUser Mode). In LM 7.0 you click on
> the FileManager SuperUser Mode and, after typing in your root password,
> you are immediately allowed access to the graphical File Manager as
> ROOT.
>
> I used LM 7.1 for at least a week and never found such an option. It is
> one of the main reasons I switched back to LM 7.0.
>
> Is it conceivable that Linux-Mandrake would abandon such a critical
> tool?
>
> My instinct tells me that I must be wrong, that I must be missing
> something.
>
> Could someone please clarify this situation for me and everyone else. If
> LM has dropped this option, then we need to urge them to restore it.
> Without it, the FileManager is essentially crippled.
>
> But first the facts. Am I right or am I wrong.
Have you considered creating a menu entry that points to it in the
form 'kdesu -c "command"' ? After all, there are several file
managers and you didn't specify which one, but the above would work
for creating a superuser mode for any of them.
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