Bug 178218

Summary: Automatically retry action with kdesudo if permission denied
Product: [Unmaintained] kdesudo Reporter: Alan Moore <me>
Component: generalAssignee: Jonathan Riddell <jr>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alan Moore 2008-12-19 20:04:16 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When attempting an action that is prevented by lack of permissions -- for example, trying to edit a config file under /etc or /boot -- instead of merely getting a permssions error, the user could be presented with a dialog informing them that there was a permission problem, and asking if they want to retry the action with kdesudo/kdesu.

Naturally, this would be accompanied by the necessary warnings; also, it should be only activated if the user is in the sudoers file or has execute privileges on /bin/su, as appropriate.
Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 16:48:54 UTC 
This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/kdesudo

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.