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Use the Menu Editor. Change the command line to read "kdesu -- sudo kfmclient.....". Just add the 'kdesu --sudo ' in front of whatever is there. You will also have to be set up as a sudoer for this to work. You may have to edit the /etc/sudoers file to set this up. Usually this is just a matter of uncommenting the last line in the sudoers file by removing the # from in front of it.

I have been trying to figure this out for weeks, just followed your advice, but still can't do it. Here's what I did:
1) as ROOT, I typed EDITOR=kate visudo
2) I then changed sudoers. It now reads as follows:
# sudoers file.
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# Defaults specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
# ADDED December 4, 2003
lawrencegoodman ALL=(ALL) ALL

lawrencegoodman is the user I want to be able to have kdesu provileges, but when I type the command nothing happens. Do you know what's going on? Thanks.

Sorry, I should have added that when I type kdesu -- sudo kfclient . . . from the command line, I get this error:

kdesu: WARNING: Daemon not safe (not sgid), not using it.

Maybe this means something?

Lawrence

Well, it turns out there is a very simple solution to this problem.

In kmenueditor, create a command:

konqueror -profile filemanagement

and then tell it to run it as a different user. Works brilliantly.

Man, the amount of time you can throw away on Linux. It can really be frustrating.