how to run kdesu without asking password?
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 11:27:59 UTC 2011
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:09 AM, erikmccaskey64 <erikmccaskey64 at zoho.com> wrote:
> [root at a ~]# kdesudo
> bash: kdesudo: command not found...
> [root at a ~]# yum search kdesudo
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Adding en_US to language list
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 29015.
> Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> The other application is: PackageKit
> Memory : 25 M RSS ( 66 MB VSZ)
> Started: Fri Feb 11 12:05:10 2011 - 00:06 ago
> State : Sleeping, pid: 29015
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * fedora: mirrors.uaip.org
> * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
> * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
> * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org
> * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
> * updates: mirrors.uaip.org
> Warning: No matches found for: kdesudo
> No Matches found
> [root at a ~]# apropos kdesu
> kdesu (1) - Runs a program with elevated privileges
> [root at a ~]# apropos kdesudo
> [root at a ~]#
>
>
> kdesu was in the "kdebase-runtime" package. but where is kdesudo?
It lloks like it's a kubuntu app (!); sorry.
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/KdeSudo?content=72106
In GNOME, you can set gksu/gksudo to use either su or sudo as a
backend either at the cli with "--su-mode" or "--sudo-mode" or
permanently in the gconf settings.
I don't use KDE so I don't know whether it's possible (it *must* be)
and, if it is, how. :(
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