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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root
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Yohan Pereira wrote:
> 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).
>
>
You are assuming correctly above. The way I have always had to set this
up is like this. Set up the menu item like I would with any other
user. In the Advanced tab, I set it to run as user root. When I then
select to run the item from the menu, a little GUI window will pop up
and ask me for the root password. This has worked in KDE3 for ages and
I don't recall having any trouble with it all. KDE4 has been changing
things around and I have had to rework things a couple times as KDE4
seems to keep changing the way things work.
I suspect you may be right, that it uses kdesu. Just to make sure it
wasn't a wrong version installed, this is what I have:
root@smoker / # equery list -p kdesu
* Searching for kdesu ...
[-P-] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-4.4.5:4.4
[IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-4.5.1:4.5
root@smoker / #
So, I do have the latest at least. I'll try to re-emerge it although I
think I already did that once. I know I tried re-emerging some other
packages trying to get this to work again.
What gets me, I have Dolphin set up the same way, it works just fine. I
can also run Konqueror from a root Konsole and it works fine there. It
just doesn't like the menu item for some reason. I suspect it doesn't
like kdesu for some reason. Maybe it's a bug and will be fixed or it
may be a new "feature". Who knows.
Dale
:-) :-)