Bug 254238

Summary:	Add the possibility to run stuff as root using the GUI
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Leonardo <leonardo.salerno>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Leonardo 2010-10-15 11:11:13 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

I often need to run programs, especially (but non only) Dolphin and Kate as root. I know there's kdesu but a nice menu item would be much better, faster and less awkward to use. If it gets in the way it could be shown only if the user right clicks the program (whether in dolphin or folderview etc etc) with the shift key pressed down.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-10-15 13:00:59 UTC

> a nice menu item would be much better

You can add the kdesu command to a menu item. Simply allowing _any_ program to run as root is not a good idea.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2011-02-02 16:52:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5522 ***