man vs. kdesu

[Derek Broughton]

Juan Carlos Torres wrote:

> 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.

Not really an "added role".  kdesu is just set to request _your_ password,
instead of the root password - which is consistent with sudo rather than
su.
-- 
derek