> The menu item includes kdesudo which is a tool to graphically
> ask the user for their administrative password.

This is incorrect, opening the KDE Menu Editor the command for running
Synaptic is "synaptic". I trying tracing exactly where the kdesudo is
being run, but could not find it. "which synaptic" points to
/usr/sbin/synaptic which is binary so I don't know if the permissions-
elevation dialogue is called from there.


> It would be a security issue if the system tried to grant itself
> administrative access and would very likely not even work.

The permissions-elevation dialogue should be called, just as is done
from the Kmenu.


> If you want to run an application as root you will need to specify
> either su or sudo in some way before the command you want to run.

Obviously, but _something_ is calling the permissions-elevation dialogue
when Synaptic is run from the Kmenu. What is calling it?

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Synaptic launched from Krunner has no root privileges
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