Thread: [KDE] How do I manage KDE password(s)?
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2008-01-31 , 19:39
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Originally Posted by sungrove View Post
Does this mean in a way that somehow kDE has an integrated 'becomeroot' in it ? It is true I do not have becomeroot installed, so apparently this was why the regular xterm does not work for me and 'rooterm' did. I should probably install becomeroot, eh? Neither program, however would work when I tried your command lines to fix the email. Thanks for the help PB. Much appreciated.

Neil
No, you do not need becomeroot. I am just a creature of habbit

Installing KDE allows user to run any application as root using sudo.

Opening "rooterm" opens a terminal as user root, opening a normal terminal and running "sudo su -" will get you the same thing, you will become user root.
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