Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:55:16 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: arnab bhowmick <arnabbhowmick111@gmail.com>, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Subject: Re: Use "kdesu" in KDE Message-ID: <4358779.WdKTPnpt2K@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <20150411211412.c8e802ba.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAGk=YH45E5S7S-9P53eoKJbYce82iVD1950gDfNMvDqab1D4xA@mail.gmail.com> <20150411190312.GA2366@c720-r276659> <20150411211412.c8e802ba.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 21:14:12 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:03:12 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hmmm: > > > > > > $ kdesu date > > sh: kdesu: not found > > Thanks for verifying! Interesting that it's not part of > KDE anymore... It's still there - /usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu curlew:/home/mike% pkg which /usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu was installed by package kde-runtime-4.14.3 I think it's in libexec because it's not normally expected to be invoked from the command line but is utilised by the menu editor and ALT+F2 when you tick the box to run a program as a different user. > On the other hand, I remember that KDE had some built-in > means to "switch to root" (at least on Linux), but I > cannot remember where this option was located or how it > was called. That's kdesu > > But, who needs 'kdesu' is you have a terminal, xterm, ... and 'su' Kdesu enables you to open new windows as root without needing to mess with xhost or .Xauthority. Useful for running things like wireshark. -- Mike Clarke
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