From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OzPys-0007zq-5R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:19:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E272EE0835; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FE7E0835 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg16 with SMTP id 16so1843767pvg.40 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:18:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:organization:to:subject :date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=95j+M42qc9qmH49vk+lTU5Rs90UYpU04h0UtIkU87No=; b=xg+n2E+M1kWqfnXOXTD/RJ60Uk5w66lXnav3Rz9t3mGE3T4Cn4t+SmAIrQt3Vzyqu7 /6+zYpwmlnuGPqFpXDp49M+lTDX8XoWxhksduuispMXzcG3hD8vB5bcDzDSpxqwA+9Os 671y45J4+K0i1BqrvzMiAPjt+FMDLdEoWmGW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=qvOdZWETHDvmlhYHTpzMahYVPCCQKu+16TEvhzMsTaXr6ru7+Z9sWp2yJ7Ip7BuDoq leqDtU8PF3SMLJwu8fVsneDAMtxR4lR5b979llkYLWm6+ZtHQXk51oC1K8bW4RPJVNXp PRs5xb3udQFnux5eZfs/XI2tF4fG+NU1rte9M= Received: by 10.114.15.18 with SMTP id 18mr4973176wao.182.1285402728132; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from powerslave.localnet (triband-mum-59.182.10.192.mtnl.net.in [59.182.10.192]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x9sm5242987waj.3.2010.09.25.01.18.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:18:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Yohan Pereira Organization: Leysa To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:44:49 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-tuxonice-r1; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C9D666D.7090509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C9D666D.7090509@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009251344.49529.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a91a7787-288a-4150-84c3-42d63c65bab0 X-Archives-Hash: 7943a10691dbc4c76bddbbdec7ea6d6d On Saturday 25 September 2010 8:33:09 am Dale wrote: > Well, I don't really know what it is using. I just set up the menu item > to run the program as root. i assume you mean you setup a menuitem to run a paticular application as root like say to run konsole/konqueror as root. > I don't know if it uses su -, kdesu, sudo if its a menu item then it has to use kdesu, because sudo and su both take the password from teh std input (you wont get a gui prompt to enter the password), and nothing will happen. all you have to do is fire up the menu editor, go to your menu entry and make sure the command field looks like this "kdesu konsole", if it does look like that , try running kdesu from a konsole session and see what it prints out (it may not be installed for starters). -- - Yohan Pereira.