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How do I get kdesu back? Kubuntu only offers kdesudo.

I've just installed kubuntu 11.04, and it looks good.

I need kdesu, but only kdesudo appears to be offered. It is a poor substitute, lacking the "Ignore" button. It probably has one, since I found it has a --noignorebutton option to turn it off, but as the option is not used anywhere it appears that the kubuntu maintainers have set it as default.

I've done a bit of digging, and found kdesu hiding in

Code:

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu

Code:

# update-alternatives kdesu /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu

made it available.

Problem solved. Hope this helps others...

Jim

On my system, kdesu hangs if my lowercase password is entered in uppercase.

Hi,

Good to hear you've found a solution. Have fun with Linux. Off the Zero Reply List.

Kind regards,

Eric

I know this is an old thread, but I thought this post was still relevant, on the chance that this information might help someone else out there:

I did find the kdesu program in the same place listed by CollieJim, but the update-alternatives command didn't work on my Kubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) system as given above.

What DID work was to run update-alternatives, but with a slightly different set of parameters:

Code:

user@machine:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config kdesu

(If I omit 'sudo ' from the beginning, the command displays correctly but cannot save any changes.)

That command brings up the following on my system:

Code:

user@machine:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config kdesu

There are 2 choices for the alternative kdesu (providing /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu).



  Selection    Path                                      Priority  Status

------------------------------------------------------------

* 0            /usr/bin/kdesudo                            100      auto mode

  1            /usr/bin/kdesudo                            100      manual mode

  2            /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu  50        manual mode



Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Simply press '2' and Enter, and the alternatives system remembers that choice as the default. Now 'kdesu' seems to run fine on my system.

Thanks for that, beerslayer. I'll try it next time I boot kubuntu. What I did get working hung if an incorrect password was entered.

Not sure about kubuntu but on Debian all you need to do is

as root run

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu

Debian User Forums • View topic - HOWTO - get kdesu back to normal in KDE4 - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=40158

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 4652011)

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu

Bad idea. As you can see in your cited thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 4652011)

Debian User Forums • View topic - HOWTO - get kdesu back to normal in KDE4 - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=40158

the proper way to solve this is:

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low kdesudo

Also

Code:

man update-alternatives

will give you more infos and the undestanding of update-alternatives. And why you should use this way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sotel (Post 4785810)

Bad idea. As you can see in your cited thread

the proper way to solve this is:

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low kdesudo

Also

Code:

man update-alternatives

will give you more infos and the undestanding of update-alternatives. And why you should use this way.

Neat.
After almost 9 years of running I do know about update-alternatives.