Bug 136894

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