man vs. kdesu

[Juan Carlos Torres]

On 10/17/07, Michael <mmorse757 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have read the man pages for both sudo and kdesu.  Their functions seem
> to overlap. In what situations would you use one instead of the other?

kdesu is technically a graphical su for KDE (hence KDE su), but due to
Ubuntu's situation with the root account and sudo (and with X), kdesu takes
on an added role.

This page might explain it better: http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo