> 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? -- Synaptic launched from Krunner has no root privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
