Bug 351637

Summary:	kdesudo stalls in non-standard sudo
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdesudo	Reporter:	Helio Loureiro <helio.loureiro>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jonathan Riddell <jr>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Proposed patch

Description Helio Loureiro 2015-08-23 09:01:23 UTC

We use a special tag on sudo, like this:

$ sudo whoami
Enter password:
root

When parsing prompt, kdesudo stalls.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change sudo's password prompt.
2. Call a sudo for any command.
3. Verify it won't work on kdesudo


Actual Results:  
kdesudo stalls

Comment 1 Helio Loureiro 2015-08-23 09:02:27 UTC

Created attachment 94181 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 2 Helio Loureiro 2015-08-23 09:03:14 UTC

Bug verified on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04.

Comment 3 Dan Dart 2018-08-07 11:33:37 UTC

Can confirm this is still an issue in Ubuntu 18.04 using:

sudo 1.8.21p2
Qt: 4.8.7
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.38
KDE su: 1.0

I don't think this particular patch will work in all cases, and needs to handle extra text to be inputted and the response to be passed to sudo.

What I did is use an extra prompt after the standard prompt (I installed libpam-google-authenticator) but I think it comes under the same use case.

Comment 4 Dan Dart 2018-08-07 11:37:32 UTC

Might be related to it not being maintained here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1044354/kdesu-not-working

But it's still in use when running programs from the K menu like a partition manager for example - I wouldn't mind if this were to be replaced, but running something without a terminal using the GUI that needs root is still something that's needed.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 16:48:53 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This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.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.