Bug 195293

Summary:	kdesu doesn't work without creating symbolic link first
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	David Batson <dkbatson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David Batson 2009-06-05 04:31:58 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

If I open Konsole, type kdesu and press the ENTER key, nothing happens.  I discovered on the Mandriva forums that a symbolic link needs to be made first for kdesu to work.  Other users reported the same.

ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=112518

I filed a bug report on Mandriva's bugzilla, but was directed to post the bug upstream at kde.org.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51438

Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-10-11 16:21:50 UTC

i think the de-facto consensus within the community is to leave "fixing" this up to packagers. the official way to use in scripts is calling
  KDESU=`kde4-config --path libexec --locate kdesu`