From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 19:57:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B11616A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:57:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F59E43D54 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:57:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20050201195708016003nk10e>; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:57:09 +0000 Message-ID: <41FFDF0B.20205@computer.org> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:56:59 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brianjohn@fusemail.com References: <3884.209.87.176.132.1107286387.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com> In-Reply-To: <3884.209.87.176.132.1107286387.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: way to run application as root in fluxbox menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:57:12 -0000 Brian John wrote: > Hello, I want to be able to add k3b to my menu in fluxbox. However, it > has to be run as root and I'm not sure how to do that. Is there a way > that I could get k3b to automatically run as root in fluxbox? It is ok if > I have to enter my root password every time that I run it. > > Thanks > > /Brian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You might try /usr/ports/security/sudo. It has a 'no password prompt' option. Read its man pages for any security issues. -- Regards, Eric