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starting a root terminal from guest mode

Posted: 11 Feb 2016, 06:26
by francois
I would like to start a root terminal from guest mode from command line. How does one do that^

Thanks.

Re: starting a root terminal from guest mode

Posted: 11 Feb 2016, 10:20
by donald

Code: Select all

guest@localhost:~$ terminal -e "su -"

Re: starting a root terminal from guest mode

Posted: 11 Feb 2016, 11:18
by aus9
If you have a "run" menu item and you are using KDE then you might be interested in
kdesu <software-name>

eg kdesu kate ---kdesu konsole etc

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ot-949450/

Re: starting a root terminal from guest mode

Posted: 11 Feb 2016, 14:28
by francois
Thanks to both. Your expertise is really appreciated. :)