Version: Unbekannt (using 3.5.7 "release 72.6" , openSUSE 10.3) Compiler: Target: i586-suse-linux OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.16-0.2-default It would be very nice if kdesu took care about /etc/sudoers as sudo does. Kdesu already does not prompt for a password if invoked as root. Additionally kdesud should check if /etc/sudoers allows the required program to be run as root by the user. Alternatively as a temporary workaround kdesu could directly try to run the required program by sudo -S "prog params" </dev/null at first and thereupon only prompt for the password to run the program itself in the case that sudo has returned an error.
This is really an issue. Just think of the many little programmes like kwifimanager, update or package management tools, admin-tools or any other sudoer candidate requiring root privileges. All of them could either be launched automatic on startup without having to type a password or even later on under the circumstances specified in /etc/sudoers.
still an issue, especially for the opensuseupdater-kde.
As promised at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400903 kdesu should now be able to make use of /etc/sudoers by the following setting: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo However that simply does not work for my version of kdesu: > /usr/bin/kdesu -c /sbin/yast2 piwo ---> still prompts for password > sudo /sbin/yast2 piwo ---> works > cat ~/.kde4/share/config/kdesurc [super-user-command] super-user-command=sudo > rpm -qf /usr/bin/kdesu kdebase4-runtime-4.0.4-26.22
Very important, since opensuseupdater-kde will rely on it. If possible please fix prior to the Opensuse 11.0 release.
11.1
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Kdesudo at kde-apps.org promises to provide the desired functionality: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KdeSudo?content=72106 Perhaps we should inlcude its functionality into kdesu or install and use this app by default in place of kdesu.
effectively a dupe - don't bother with the details. and we're definitely not going to mess with sudoers. ;) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115898 ***