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eldiener

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Sunday, January 20th 2008, 2:32am

Desktop applications and kdesu

I do not know whether or not kdesu is considered part of KDE but I thought I would asked my question here anyway.

When visually setting up a desktop file to run an application, KDE offers the Advanced option to run as a different user and I am guessing this uses kdesu under the covers. If I have in my /etc/sudoers file the same application in a command, with the sudoers NOPASSWD: option set for that command, I would have expected kdesu to honor this and not prompt me for the root password when I try to run the application from the desktop. But this does not happen and I always must type the root password, which is a PITA.

Is there some way in KDE to avoid this in the same way that sudo uses the /etc/sudoers file ?