pkexec vs kdesu

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Sun Nov 23 15:50:50 UTC 2014


You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env.

pkexec won't copy anything, sudo will.
Without $DISPLAY graphical apps are out.

That said, polkit is totally the way forward and anything using kdesu
should be ported. What does still use it?

David
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