[ale] Give superuser to gui apps.

[Scott Plante]

In KDE there's a program called 'kdesu" that's like su but it preserves your X environment so you can execute GUI apps. So if I want to run Yast (the openSUSE admin console), I can type "kdesu /sbin/yast2" on the command line. I just noticed the menu entry executes "xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2" but it still pops up the kdesu root password prompt. A quick Google didn't pop up an immediate answer, but it seems like xdg-su is the generic way to do it, and it forwards to the equivalent for your desktop. There is an option to save the password if you want, but I don't use it--I kind of like the reminder that I'm executing a root function. 


Scott 
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From: "Atlanta Geek" <atlantageek at gmail.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 11:06:23 AM 
Subject: [ale] Give superuser to gui apps. 


Hi all. 
Im normally a console guy but sometimes I do got to the gui. Im running ubuntu14.10 trying to add users and configure vpn. It wont let my user because he doesnt have privileges. 


Im the only user. how can i give my user accout permission to do admin things. Is there a group that I need to add him to. 




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