Bug 54855

Summary: Wish: "Open As...(user/root)" dialog
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: perlmeister
Component: generalAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description perlmeister 2003-02-19 12:38:34 UTC 
Version:           2.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:          Linux

It would be very helpful if Kate would offer an "Open as (user/root)..." option.

For example: People (also administrators) are usually logged in as normal users (Group "users"). Opening a file that this users has no access to doesn't work of course. But it would be nice to have an "Open as root" option so that the user has to type root's password and grands access to the choosen file.

What do you think about that idea?

Thanks in advance,
Christian Hartmann
Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2003-08-18 00:04:55 UTC 
technically not really possible in that way (not sane), but you can for example use the 
fish ioslave to connect to your own machine with root rights (if you allow that on your 
machine for localhost)
Comment 2 Anders Lund 2003-08-18 00:20:12 UTC 
kdesu -c "kwrite /etc/somefile" 
can be typed in a term or in the alt + f2 command line, or even in a .desktop file