[Bug 50971] Re: kdesu will not start apps

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On Monday 26 February 2007 21:24:15 ^rooker wrote:
> Neither running "sudo -k" nor "kdesu -s" makes kdesu functional again.


That's because "sudo -k" only removes the timestamp corresponding to the 
current pseudo terminal, and kdesu starts sudo on a different pseudo 
terminal.

A workaround is to run "sudo rm /var/run/sudo/yourusername/*". This removes 
the timestamp files for all pseudo terminals.

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kdesu will not start apps
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50971