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Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« on: 2019/09/16, 20:14:47 »
I may be the last person on Earth who uses kdesu to open graphical packages in root mode on the plasma desktop, but it appears I am now also dropping it, as it no longer works.  One of the updates in the past week apparently disabled it.  There is still an executable under /usr/bin, but if you launch it as a user, after you enter the root password it will fail with the message "org.kde.kdesu: Daemon not safe (not sgid), not using it." and leave a hung process that you'll have to kill manually.

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Re: Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« Reply #1 on: 2019/09/16, 20:42:06 »
not have a look - but what about to set this flag ?
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Re: Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« Reply #2 on: 2019/09/16, 20:42:52 »
And switch to LXQt - we provide lxqt-sudo aka lxsudo aka lxsu - one could make an alias :D
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Re: Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« Reply #3 on: 2019/09/16, 20:57:05 »
(1) On the plasma desktop, type "konsole".

(2) $ su

(3) # leafpad


or, use LXQt ....

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Re: Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« Reply #4 on: 2019/09/16, 21:53:10 »
to be honest - the kde guys are not wrong to limit graphical apps and root - you yould test this one:

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM#pkexec_method

Ok, now i should better run and hide
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Re: Bye-bye / Tchuss kdesu
« Reply #5 on: 2019/09/16, 21:56:57 »
Quote from: melmarker
... https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM#pkexec_method ...

You should watch for a dragon flying in the night, over your house!

LOL
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