19 Dec
2015
19 Dec
'15
10:21 a.m.
Hi Gene
You missed the point, it demands a root pw, that on
this wheezy system,
does not exist, so it cannot be launched from the menu entry by any pw
entered. The pw used for doing a sudo is not accepted. That was my
point.
Don't put it in the menu's at all if the user cannot use his sudo to get
the root rights it needs.
what happens, if you do - if you are allowed to start su from sudo:
xhost + # to allow other users to access the xserver
sudo su # to become root without a password
export DISPLAY=:0 # set the DISPLAY variable to access the xserver
ksysv # start the wanted program
If this works, you can use the program without a password.
HTH
Rolf