[PATCH] kdebase/konsole/konsolesu.desktop

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Mon Feb 17 10:35:01 GMT 2003


On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:55, Willy De la Court wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Another small patch
> I can't even take credit for this one i found it in the source rpm's from
> Redhat
> it uses "kdesu konsole" instead of "konsole --type su " so the user gets a
> nice dialog to enter the root password

The difference is that with "kdesu konsole" the konsole itself runs with root 
privileges while "konsole --type su" only runs the shell with root 
privileges. I consider the latter slightly more secure. It is also more 
efficient since it doesn't require kdeinit&friends to be running as root.

Cheers,
Waldo
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