Alternative to kdesu?

HenryJia · 2013-12-02 19:59:09

Hi guys,

Well I'm trying to use finger print scanner on my laptop and I have installed fingerprint-gui and it works perfectly

My problem is that whenever I try to run something like wicd by clicking on its icon, it asks for the root password through kdesu (as I am running kdm).
Kdesu is kinda buggy with fingerprint scanners as it freezes after I type the password or swipe my finger.
Are there any alternatives to kdesu which I can try which might not have these problems?

Sanne · 2013-12-02 22:04:02

There's a comand line tool called sux, which is "a wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials". I'm using it in one of my for-play virtualbox Linux installs to start graphical applications, works fine.

There's also gksu, the GTK equivalent of kdesu.

Last edited by Sanne (2013-12-02 22:05:57)

HenryJia · 2013-12-03 00:10:38

ok, I installed sux how do I remove kdesu?

ninian · 2013-12-03 00:18:38

Or you could use the very simple but reliable method of:
- install dmenu or dmenu2
- at startup set the environment variable SUDO_ASKPASS=/path/dudo
- install /path/dudo script:

#!/bin/bash
# dudo : Helps 'sudo --askpass' prompt (with text $1) for a password when $SUDO_ASKPASS=/path/dudo
# Refs: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=777137#p777137 and 'man sudo'
#       https://bitbucket.org/melek/dmenu2

m=${DMENU:-dmenu -i}; p=${1:-Password}

# Standard dmenu version
$m -p "$p" -nf '#xxxxxx -nb '#xxxxxx' <&- && echo  # edit: set xxxxxx to desired colour - will be invisible anyway

# Slicker dmenu2 version
# $m -p "$p" -noinput -mask && echo

Last edited by ninian (2013-12-03 00:19:36)

HenryJia · 2013-12-03 21:31:02

Ok, but how do I remove KDE SU which is my existing authentication thingy as I noticed that KDESU is not a package in pacman.

ninian · 2013-12-03 22:05:47

HenryJia wrote:

Ok, but how do I remove KDE SU which is my existing authentication thingy as I noticed that KDESU is not a package in pacman.

See file list for kdebase-runtime, where usr/bin/kdesu is listed. Don't use KDE myself, but it looks as though it's part of the essential KDE base.

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#1 2013-12-02 19:59:09

Alternative to kdesu?

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