From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 12 10:48:07 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 019847D8 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 851A0F12 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout08 with smtp id Eynu1q0041mJoLY01ynvju; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:47:55 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=GcuZnGnL c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=19pAxiUZ1PoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=e9J7MTPGsLIA:10 a=e5mUnYsNAAAA:8 a=1YZ9ssMbxy0q9QXARMIA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=MfbQTTD_NU0A:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13] helo=milibyte.co.uk) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFQe-00018O-4n for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:47:54 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:47:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1846362.0RNNXTKooT@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE-p9; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150412072053.49a74007@archlinux> References: <4358779.WdKTPnpt2K@curlew.lan> <20150412072053.49a74007@archlinux> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: Use "kdesu" in KDE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:48:07 -0000 On Sunday 12 Apr 2015 07:20:53 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:55:16 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > >It's still there - /usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu > > Lot of folks prefer > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.105/pkexec.1.html > > over kdesu. Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. But can it cope with opening a window on the desktop without needing to mess with xhost, .Xauthority and DISPLAY ? curlew:/home/mike% pkexec xterm Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. /usr/local/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: %s /usr/local/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set -- Mike Clarke