Re: Equivalent of su for GUI?

From: Roberto Selbach Teixeira (rst_at_iname.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:16:55 -0300

This afternoon, BrenBarn@aol.com wrote:
> Yeah, I looked at kdesu, and it seems like that's the way to
> proceed. The problem is, I want a really general way to hook it into
> the GUI. I don't want to have to open a konsole and do "kdesu foo", I
> want to be able to click on the "foo" icon like I normally would, only
> click some other button first, or hold down Ctrl-Shift or something, and
> have my GUI actions take effect with root privs.

I see what you want and the short answer is no. There isn't a standard
way for applications to "become root" on the fly. At least not in KDE
or GNOME.

The closest thing you could do would be something like you say you did
with the konqi service menu. Also, remember that you can go to
Properties of any application link and set it to always run as
root. Still not exactly what you want, but...

This might be actually interesting to implement. You might want to
post it as as wishlist on http://bugs.kde.org...

            Roberto. 

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