So today I am beggining my long and crooked path into becoming an ultimate Linux power-user I've tampered with sudoers file to give me all root rights for my package manager without asking for password. I WANT MORE OF THAT POWER!

Please tell me, how can I make kdesu not ask for password (so that e.g. I run kdesu kate and it doesn't ask for password, it simply starts)

I've also been thinking about a "UAC-like" version of sudo, if you like, you can read here :

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? ... 38#p633338

So I extend my question a little now. Things I want to know:

(1) If it's possible to disable kdesu password completely and how

(2) If it's possible to disable kdesu password, but ask the user if he/she is sure he/she wants to run a program w/ administrator rights and how

this may help (but it appears to be distro specific) http://www.benkevan.com/blog/default-kd ... nd-not-su/ it says openSuse (and maybe others) changed kdesu to use su instead of sudo thus negating the sudoesrs file being referenced when using kdesu

Seems quite helpful in achieving what I want to do.


Thanks!

PS.: So if I set no password for sudo and then execute "kdesu kate" for example, it should run immediately, provided I use your advice before, right?

afaik it should - I bookmarked the page but haven't actually bothered to use it, though I did post a request to openSuse to make the change https://features.opensuse.org/307257 but no one has bothered to vote for it

I have now

PS.: Just tried your command and it doesn't work in Archlinux, unfortunately. Still ask for password even though /etc/sudoers claims otherwise.

See here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dis ... o_password

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KDE - kdesu

kdesu may be used under KDE to launch GUI applications with root privileges. It is possible that by default kdesu will try to use su even if the root account is disabled. Fortunately we can tell kdesu to use sudo instead of su.
There are two ways to do so:
Recompile kdebase with '--with-sudo-kdesu-backend' configure switch.
Create a kdesurc file in '/usr/share/config/' with the following:
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo


Good thing Arch has so many wikis

PS.: Or maybe it needs to be:

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kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command -key
super-user-command sudo


as seen here:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ ... 05091.html

Note that if you have already run KDESu, you may need to force it to reload its configuration:

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killall -2 kdesu kdesud