Bug 136894

Summary:	Kdesu don't check for temporary-saved sudo password
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	Treviño <trevi55>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	psychonaut
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Treviño 2006-11-05 15:40:40 UTC

Version:           3.5.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I'm using kubuntu edgy (KDE 3.5.5) like in previous versions, kdesu has a “bug”... Pratically it doesn't check for saved sudo password before running programs with privileged rights... If I run application Kapp with «kdesu Kapp1», then - after few secs/mins - I do «kdesu Kapp2», I get again the kdesu window asking for a su/sudo password; but now I can give it any password (or I can just leave the password field blank) and clicking on "ok" I can open the second application...
Just becouse it already know the sudo password...

Well... Couldn't it do these password check before opening kdesu window (like gtksu does)?
Something like... «If I can run Kapp2 without asking password, I'll do that; else I'll ask for password...»
It seems quite easy to say :D

More infos here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-default-settings/+bug/36007

Comment 1 Anton 2006-12-22 12:12:52 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 2 Juan Carlos Torres 2007-03-14 14:22:39 UTC

Adding my confirmation that this still happens in KDE 3.5.6.

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2010-09-21 17:28:06 UTC

Confirming bug still exists in KDE 4.5.1.

Comment 4 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-06 19:09:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115898 ***