kdesu and sudo (re: Waldo's bugs)

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 4:03, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> > Looking through Waldo's bugs, I notice that the wish to use "sudo" with
> > kdesu is very popular:
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20914
> >
> > Jonathan Riddell has a patch on that BR which implements the wish, and from
> > asking kubuntu users, it seems that the patch (or one implementing the same
> > functionality) has been merged into the distro. Would it therefore be a
> > candidate for the 3.5 feature unfreeze?
> 
> it would be nice to see this go in as an option imho.. it would decrease 
> down-stream burden and allow people to set up sudo on their own boxes...
> 
> btw, this used to be very buggy in breezy and give me all sorts of annoyances 
> but i have yet to run into a single problem in dapper so i looks like the 
> patch is pretty solid now.

My reluctance to get it into KDE is because of the issues noted in
comment No 13, on second running kdesu doesn't realise that sudo
doesn't need a password so it still asks for a password but accepts
anything.  It's not a major issues (doesn't cause any security
problems) so I'll commit the patch and try and look at fixing the issue when
I'm in bugfix mode next month.

Jonathan