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Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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> On Saturday 25 September 2010 8:33:09 am Dale wrote: |
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>> Well, I don't really know what it is using. I just set up the menu item |
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>> to run the program as root. |
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> i assume you mean you setup a menuitem to run a paticular application as root |
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> like say to run konsole/konqueror as root. |
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>> I don't know if it uses su -, kdesu, sudo |
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> if its a menu item then it has to use kdesu, because sudo and su both take the |
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> password from teh std input (you wont get a gui prompt to enter the password), |
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> and nothing will happen. all you have to do is fire up the menu editor, go to |
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> your menu entry and make sure the command field looks like this "kdesu |
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> konsole", if it does look like that , try running kdesu from a konsole session |
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> and see what it prints out (it may not be installed for starters). |
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You are assuming correctly above. The way I have always had to set this |
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up is like this. Set up the menu item like I would with any other |
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user. In the Advanced tab, I set it to run as user root. When I then |
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select to run the item from the menu, a little GUI window will pop up |
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and ask me for the root password. This has worked in KDE3 for ages and |
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I don't recall having any trouble with it all. KDE4 has been changing |
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things around and I have had to rework things a couple times as KDE4 |
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seems to keep changing the way things work. |
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I suspect you may be right, that it uses kdesu. Just to make sure it |
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wasn't a wrong version installed, this is what I have: |
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root@smoker / # equery list -p kdesu |
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* Searching for kdesu ... |
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[-P-] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-4.4.5:4.4 |
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[IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-4.5.1:4.5 |
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root@smoker / # |
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So, I do have the latest at least. I'll try to re-emerge it although I |
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think I already did that once. I know I tried re-emerging some other |
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packages trying to get this to work again. |
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What gets me, I have Dolphin set up the same way, it works just fine. I |
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can also run Konqueror from a root Konsole and it works fine there. It |
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just doesn't like the menu item for some reason. I suspect it doesn't |
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like kdesu for some reason. Maybe it's a bug and will be fixed or it |
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may be a new "feature". Who knows. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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