man vs. kdesu
Juan Carlos Torres
carlosdgtorres at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 08:14:36 UTC 2007
On Thursday 18 October 2007 1:39:37 am Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
True. But kdesu wasn't really made with sudo in mind. iirc, it was a patch
from Kubuntu that allowed kdesu to use sudo. Notice that kdesu doesn't
remember passwords for a given time the way sudo does. This is what led to
kdesudo in Gutsy.
Another "added" role for kdesu in Kubuntu is to prevent messing
up .ICEauthority and stuff (not sure which files exactly) when you launch GUI
apps as root. Hence the "use kdesu instead of sudo for GUI apps" rule. AFAIK,
in other distros, since kdesu uses su by default, it doesn't matter much
whether you use sudo or kdesu. I might be wrong on this one though. :D
Cheers!
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