Security Concern

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Nathan England wrote:
> Hello Hello,
> 
> I realize this is bad form, but regardless it works. I have my user setup as 
> part of the wheel group, so sudo automatically elevates me when I use it. I 
> have several files that I will access and make changes to with my root user, 
> and occassionaly I use kwrite as my user running under sudo to access those 
> files as well.
> 
> I decided to create a shortcut on my desktop, so I clicked the kmenu, typed in 
> kwrite and then right clicked it and select 'add to panel'. It did so, then I 
> edited the icon settings and changed it to execute 'sudo kwrite' 
> 
> It all works well, but when I tried to open kwrite, NOT from my panel shortcut 
> which opens sudo kwrite, but from the kmenu I found it had edited my short 
> cuts globally and it always opens kwrite in sudo mode...
> 
> Is this to be expected, or is this a bug as the system is not creating a "new" 
> shortcut but rather a pointer to the real one???? 
> 
> Any thoughts, besides how stupid I may be for doing it this way...;-)

You need to create a new shortcut.  Right click on the desktop, "Create 
new->Application link" and enter:

   kdesu /usr/kde/4.2/bin/kwrite

(needs a full path; use "which kwrite" on a terminal to see the full 
path of kwrite).

PS:
Use kdesu instead of sudo.  Also, I sure hope you've set up sudo to ask 
for a password?

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