[kde-linux] krunner (kde4) question

[James Kerr]

On Saturday 04 Oct 2008, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> In kde 3.5, entering "kdesu <command>" in the earlier equivalent of
> krunner resulted in the command being run suid root, the same as running
> "sudo <command>" in a terminal.
>
> In kubuntu 8.04, running kdesu in krunner in kde4.1 seems at best
> inconsistent.  Sometimes the command executes (as in calling konqueror)
> and sometimes it doesn't (as in calling dolphin). Nevertheless, sudo
> works fine. In kubuntu 8.10, kdesu in krunner doesn't seem to work at
> all.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem?  Solution?
>

The KDE4 dev's have decided for some, as yet unexplained, reason that users 
should not have easy access to kdesu. You need to make it available. On my 
Mandriva system I do this:

# ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu
# chmod +x /usr/bin/kdesu

Presumably, something similar would work on kubuntu.

Jim