krunner (kde4) question

[Derek Broughton]

p.daniels wrote:

> On Saturday October 4 2008 05:20:15 Paul Kaplan wrote:
>> In kde 3.5, entering "kdesu <command>" in the earlier equivalent of
>> krunner resulted in the command being run suid root, the same as running
>> "sudo <command>" in a terminal.
>>
>> In kubuntu 8.04, running kdesu in krunner in kde4.1 seems at best
>> inconsistent.  Sometimes the command executes (as in calling konqueror)
>> and sometimes it doesn't (as in calling dolphin). Nevertheless, sudo
>> works fine. In kubuntu 8.10, kdesu in krunner doesn't seem to work at
>> all.
> 
> Yes, I've seen it. No, I don't have an answer. For instance, I get "kdesu:
> command not found" when I try to kdesu qtparted through krunner, but as
> you noted, not when I run it through a shell. I have the suspicion that
> there's a command list for kdesu hiding somewhere that's munging this up,
> but the man page for kdesu is no help. Anybody else?

That seems highly unlikely.  Much more likely is that it simply doesn't find
those particular files on the path.  Try  "kdesu /full/path/to/app".
-- 
derek