[NTLUG:Discuss] Administrative Priviledges

[Allen Meyers]

Appreciate the heads up on this
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  From: goodtimetribe 
  To: discuss at ntlug.org 
  Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Administrative Priviledges


  >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
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