[kde-freebsd] KDE .desktop files

[Andy Fawcett]

On Saturday 03 May 2008 17:19:49 Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I appologize if this is the wrong place, but it seems specific to KDE.
> I didn't know if I should use this, or a KDE specific forum.
>
> I have a script file I want to run, that needs administrative
> privleges. I currently have it as an executable file with just a
> #!/bin/sh at the first line, and then the command later. The problem
> is:
>   #!/bin/sh
>   mycommand
> doesn't work because it's running as me, not root.
>   #!/bin/sh
>   sudo mycommand
> also doesn't work - I don't get a password prompt. I didn't see
> anything in the documentation I found for a 'sudo' or 'su' mode in a
> .desktop file. Any suggestions how to get this to work? I'd just like
> to be able to double-click the icon on my desktop, enter the password
> in some form of popup, and go from there.

Try "kdesu mycommand", that should do it for you.

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