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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problems running Kdevelop with curtain users
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () magnifire ! net>
Date:       2001-06-25 13:00:45
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If I'm not mistaken:

KDESU == "su -c"

I need to "su" and stay "su"'d ;)

Hetz


On Monday 25 June 2001 15:44, Malte Starostik wrote:
> On Montag, 25. Juni 2001 10:38, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I started some testings with our developers using Kdevelop...
> >
> > So far it's running ok - with one problem: when they login with normal
> > username, then they try to do "su" and rerun kdevelop - they get this
> > message:
> >
> > [root@doron dannyl]# kdevelop
> > kdevelop: Fatal IO error: client killed
> >
> > The reason that they need to run kdevelop as root something which was way
> > before I had arrived to the company, and moving them now to non root
> > enviroment is not easy (specially that they develop device drivers under
> > Linux)..
>
> Just 'su' doesn't work with KDE applications. Use 'kdesu' instead, that one
> cares for setting up X auth and DCOP etc. and also has a graphical password
> prompt :)
> -Malte
 
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