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[Donn]

On Friday, 05 June 2009 20:52:37 Muzer wrote:
> Because sudo doesn't change the home directory to the /root directory
> (when kdesudo does), 
I think you mean that kdesudo does not change things to root ownership. But 
then I am not sure why you think this. I could be wrong, but the whole point 
of *any* sudo is to become (some kind of) root. After that, whatever files are 
made are made as root. So, kdesudo would have the same effect for that.

Nearest I can tell kdesudo does some fancy footwork with display vars in order 
to get access to X so that graphical apps can run as root. I am very fuzzy 
about the details. Make that 100% ignorant :)

> > Which examples of command-line bins would you use kdesudo to run?
> Well, anything that needs a config file in ~. Things like midnight ...
I think I see what's going-on here. Some people would rather run Dolphin or 
Konqueror under kdesudo in order to find and edit some config file (or change 
some file permission) that is not owned by their normal user account. So, yes 
kdesudo would be useful to them.

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