Bug 157276

Summary:	kdesu should care about /etc/sudoers
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) <estellnb>
Component:	kdesud	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-02-06 19:21:12 UTC

Version:           Unbekannt (using 3.5.7 "release 72.6" , openSUSE 10.3)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.16-0.2-default

It would be very nice if kdesu took care about /etc/sudoers as sudo does. Kdesu already does not prompt for a password if invoked as root. Additionally kdesud should check if /etc/sudoers allows the required program to be run as root by the user. Alternatively as a temporary workaround kdesu could directly try to run the required program by 
sudo -S "prog params" </dev/null 
at first and thereupon only prompt for the password to run the program itself in the case that sudo has returned an error.

Comment 1 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-02-07 17:25:12 UTC

  This is really an issue. Just think of the many little programmes like kwifimanager, update or package management tools, admin-tools or any other sudoer candidate requiring root privileges. All of them could either be launched automatic on startup without having to type a password or even later on under the circumstances specified in /etc/sudoers.

Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-08-29 12:34:33 UTC

still an issue, especially for the opensuseupdater-kde.

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-11-26 17:55:30 UTC

As promised at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400903
kdesu should now be able to make use of /etc/sudoers by the following setting:
kwriteconfig
--file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo

However that simply does not work for my version of kdesu:
> /usr/bin/kdesu -c /sbin/yast2 piwo
 ---> still prompts for password
> sudo /sbin/yast2 piwo
 ---> works
> cat ~/.kde4/share/config/kdesurc
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/kdesu
kdebase4-runtime-4.0.4-26.22

Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-12-03 08:06:32 UTC

Very important, since opensuseupdater-kde will rely on it. If possible please fix prior to the Opensuse 11.0 release.

Comment 5 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-12-03 08:07:06 UTC

11.1

Comment 6 Giedrius 2009-08-21 18:27:36 UTC

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

Comment 7 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2009-08-23 11:05:17 UTC

 Kdesudo at kde-apps.org promises to provide the
desired functionality:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KdeSudo?content=72106
 Perhaps we should inlcude its functionality into kdesu or install and use this app by default in place of kdesu.

Comment 8 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-06 20:37:04 UTC

effectively a dupe - don't bother with the details.
and we're definitely not going to mess with sudoers. ;)

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