KDE using sudo instead of su

[Rex Dieter]

Emmett Culley wrote:

> On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>>> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my
>>> user password?
>> 
>> Take yourself out of wheel.
> I was in the users group, but not in the wheel group.
> 
> Also, I have all sudoers disabled except for root.
> 
> Still, I get prompted for my users password.  Something to do with polkit?

Yes polkit.  The curious thing is that polkit default configuration is 
supposed to work as you describe:

admin user (in wheel) group: allow user password
non admin user: require root password

-- Rex