[NTLUG:Discuss] Administrative Priviledges

[goodtimetribe]

>Typically this is a program that needs to run with elevated privileges
>but does not have them.  I'm not as sure about Kubuntu, but on standard
>Ubuntu you can run the program with a "gksu" before it and you will get
>prompted for you password to give the program administrative privileges.

In KDE, you would use kdesu or kdesudo if you have it installed. It seems
right now that both have a problem with ssh authentication in Hardy Heron
8.04.1, as I'm following a bug report on Launchpad. For the meantime, the
bug makes me a gksu user as well. I installed it in Kubuntu via aptitude

Joshua K
http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu