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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.