Bug 308967

Summary:	Cannot choose if entering user or root password in graphical sudo operations
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	Leonardo Giordani <giordani.leonardo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, kde2
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Leonardo Giordani 2012-10-25 06:33:15 UTC

I am the administrator of several Linux machines running KDE and many times I find myself updating or fixing machines where I have to be logged as the user which asked me some feature or help.

The standard issue is that I want to do something that pops up the sudo password window (I'm on Kubuntu, any user can so anything through sudo), and I have to ask the user to enter the password. This means that the user has to be there for the whole session waiting to enter the password for me.

Could it be possible to add a simple "Perform as root" button to that window, so that I can type the root password instead of user's?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Let a non-privileged (but sudoer) user log in
2. Try to perform some administrative task
3. You cannot enter root password instead of user's
Actual Results:  
You must ask the user to enter their password

Expected Results:  
Expose a "Perform as root" button and let me enter root password

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2012-10-25 13:32:17 UTC

> pops up the sudo password window

What does the window title say which application that is? "kdesu" or "kdesudo"? The latter is a distribution-specific add-on.

Comment 2 Leonardo Giordani 2012-10-25 13:44:28 UTC

Right, sorry.
For example while installing packages it is "Install or remove packages - PolicyKit1-KDE", which under Details says "Provider: Kubuntu".
While opening User Settings it is KdeSudo.

So should I submit this feature request to Kubuntu people?
This means that there is no central system in KDE to deal with my problem?

Thank you

Leo

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2012-10-25 14:37:26 UTC

I have no idea if the request would be specific to kdesudo or would also apply to kdesu. I suggest to report it downstream to Launchpad, but I will also reassign to kdesu developers for inspection.

Comment 4 Diggory Hardy 2014-01-08 15:37:57 UTC

This could probably be solved at the same time as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194267 "Needs to be easier to configure to use sudo".