[Bug 182742] New: Add configuration to choose between su/sudo for kdesu

[Aneurin Price]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182742

           Summary: Add configuration to choose between su/sudo for kdesu
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: aneurin.price at gmail.com


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

KDE has an option to use sudo instead of su for kdesu, but the only method for
changing it, so far as I'm aware, is to edit a config file for which I've not
found any documentation. I managed to get what I wanted with Google's help, but
I wonder if it would be worth having an option for this somewhere in the
configuration GUI.

Ideally the user would never need to know about this, but so far as I can tell
it's not possible to determine automagically which one of su/sudo is the most
appropriate for the system in use, unless you already have root privileges to
read /etc/sudoers.

Maybe just checking if the user is in the 'wheel' or 'admin' group would work
in all usual cases? (In my /etc/passwd there is also a 'sudo' group, but I'm
not sure what that's used for.)


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