Security Concern

[Nathan England]

On Friday 06 March 2009 14:36:08 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Nathan England wrote:
> > Hello Hello,
> >
> > I realize this is bad form, but regardless it works. I have my user setup
> > as part of the wheel group, so sudo automatically elevates me when I use
> > it. I have several files that I will access and make changes to with my
> > root user, and occassionaly I use kwrite as my user running under sudo to
> > access those files as well.
> >
> > I decided to create a shortcut on my desktop, so I clicked the kmenu,
> > typed in kwrite and then right clicked it and select 'add to panel'. It
> > did so, then I edited the icon settings and changed it to execute 'sudo
> > kwrite'
> >
> > It all works well, but when I tried to open kwrite, NOT from my panel
> > shortcut which opens sudo kwrite, but from the kmenu I found it had
> > edited my short cuts globally and it always opens kwrite in sudo mode...
> >
> > Is this to be expected, or is this a bug as the system is not creating a
> > "new" shortcut but rather a pointer to the real one????
> >
> > Any thoughts, besides how stupid I may be for doing it this way...;-)
>
> You need to create a new shortcut.  Right click on the desktop, "Create
> new->Application link" and enter:
>
>    kdesu /usr/kde/4.2/bin/kwrite
>
> (needs a full path; use "which kwrite" on a terminal to see the full
> path of kwrite).
>
> PS:
> Use kdesu instead of sudo.  Also, I sure hope you've set up sudo to ask
> for a password?
>
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When I right click on the desktop I do not have an option for creating a new 
shortcut, or I would have done that! The only thing close I have found is 
right clicking an icon and selecting copy to where ever...

nathan
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