Bug 182742

Summary:	Add configuration to choose between su/sudo for kdesu
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Aneurin Price <aneurin.price>
Component:	general	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jjm
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Aneurin Price 2009-02-01 16:47:04 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

KDE has an option to use sudo instead of su for kdesu, but the only method for changing it, so far as I'm aware, is to edit a config file for which I've not found any documentation. I managed to get what I wanted with Google's help, but I wonder if it would be worth having an option for this somewhere in the configuration GUI.

Ideally the user would never need to know about this, but so far as I can tell it's not possible to determine automagically which one of su/sudo is the most appropriate for the system in use, unless you already have root privileges to read /etc/sudoers.

Maybe just checking if the user is in the 'wheel' or 'admin' group would work in all usual cases? (In my /etc/passwd there is also a 'sudo' group, but I'm not sure what that's used for.)

Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2012-03-29 11:34:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194267 ***