System-settings as root

[Anthony E. Caudel]

On May 8, 2009, at 3:58 AM, marc wrote:

> Anthony E. Caudel said:
>
>> On May 7, 2009, at 9:20 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Anthony E. Caudel
>>> <tony.caudel at sbcglobal.net
>>>> wrote:
>>> Is "kdesudo systemsettings" via the CLI the only to get root  
>>> access to
>>> the various modules of System Settings?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> Some things, like changing the time, will pop up a window  
>>> prompting for
>>> your password to run sudo.
>>>
>>> I haven't run into anything I can't change just running system  
>>> settings
>>> normally.
>>>
>>>
>> I wanted to add some tasks to cron but the Task Scheduler does not  
>> ask
>> for the password if I select the System cron.  And everything is  
>> greyed
>> out so I can't add any tasks.
>
> Same here. Can you raise a bug on it.
>

Seems like it's already been done. --

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151669
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdebase/+bug/184491

One of them says it's been fixed (I don't believe it)

Also seems like this has been around a long time.

Tony
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