25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
11:19 a.m.
I have TDE running on Squeeze. I need to run wireshark as root. Can I? Or
have I hit a fatal flaw in Trinity? :-(
I.e. has anyone got a viable workaround for it (other than learn how to set
sudo up.)
Thanks,
Lisi
25 Sep
25 Sep
11:39 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
I have TDE running on Squeeze. I need to run
wireshark as root. Can I?
Or have I hit a fatal flaw in Trinity? :-(
I.e. has anyone got a viable workaround for it (other than learn how to
set sudo up.)
you'll need sudo-trinity instead of sudo.
nik
Thanks,
Lisi
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11:56 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On Sunday 25 September 2011 12:39:12 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
Thanks Nic, but I don't want to have to use sudo at all if I can avoid it. I
want to use su with a gui, which means kdesu since I am running Debian and
Trinity, and I am hoping that someone has a workaround that I can use to do
it.
Lisi
I have TDE running on Squeeze. I need to run
wireshark as root. Can I?
Or have I hit a fatal flaw in Trinity? :-(
I.e. has anyone got a viable workaround for it (other than learn how to
set sudo up.)
you'll need sudo-trinity instead of sudo.
12:52 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
On Sunday 25 September 2011 12:39:12 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
If i remember right, kdesu is from KDE4, not trinity. Trinity comes with
kdesudo.
but if it's just wireshark, then you can write a wrapper script, create a
shortcut which calles the script using a terminal (for the root password),
something like this:
#!/bin/sh
xhost +localhost
su -c "DISPLAY=:0 wireshark &"
exit
nik
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
Thanks Nic, but I don't want to have to use sudo at all if I can avoid it.
I want to use su with a gui, which means kdesu since I am running Debian
and Trinity, and I am hoping that someone has a workaround that I can use
to do it. I have TDE running on Squeeze. I need to run
wireshark as root. Can
I? Or have I hit a fatal flaw in Trinity? :-(
I.e. has anyone got a viable workaround for it (other than learn how
to set sudo up.)
you'll need sudo-trinity instead of sudo.
Lisi
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1:53 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On Sunday 25 September 2011 13:52:28 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
If i remember right, kdesu is from KDE4, not trinity.
Trinity comes with
kdesudo.
No, you do not remember right. KDE 3 has kdesu. KDE 4 may also have it, I
don't know. But since KDE 3 has it, it seems not unreasonable to hope to
find it in Trinity. And it is incorrect to say that Trinity has kdesudo. It
may have some software installed, but it doesn't function. I have just
rechecked that. As I said in the first place, I would have to set sudo up to
use it, and I don't want to do so.
Anyhow, if you don't know a workaround, that's fine. But someone else may.
Asking whether anyone knows one is not an unreasonable request.
The answer may well be no, and I shall be reduced to GNOME. :-(
Lisi
2:03 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On 25/09/11 14:53, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 25 September 2011 13:52:28 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
There is a kdesu bug in TDE for Debian (probably because it was built
from Ubuntu sources; Ubuntu always uses sudo.). There is a workaround (I
posted this before but it was some time back) which works consistently
here. I don't use sudo at all.
1. apt-get purge kdesudo-trinity
2. Create a file ~/.trinity/share/config/kdesurc with this text:
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=su
3 You will need to edit the menus for all Trinity root apps else
dcopserver will crash. In the "command" box put:
kdesu trinity_app --nonewdcop
And uncheck "Run as different user"
From then on you should be able to use normal kdesu (or gksu), I think
I got that right. Let me know if you have any problems after, I might
have the answer
If i remember right, kdesu is from KDE4, not
trinity. Trinity comes with
kdesudo.
No, you do not remember right. KDE 3 has kdesu. KDE 4 may also have it, I
don't know. But since KDE 3 has it, it seems not unreasonable to hope to
find it in Trinity. And it is incorrect to say that Trinity has kdesudo. It
may have some software installed, but it doesn't function. I have just
rechecked that. As I said in the first place, I would have to set sudo up to
use it, and I don't want to do so.
Anyhow, if you don't know a workaround, that's fine. But someone else may.
Asking whether anyone knows one is not an unreasonable request.
The answer may well be no, and I shall be reduced to GNOME. :-(
Lisi
2:17 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On Sunday 25 September 2011 15:03:44 David Hare wrote:
On 25/09/11 14:53, Lisi wrote:
Thanks, David. That's great. I'll try now.
Yes, I knew that someone had, but I couldn't remember who and couldn't find
it.
Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 13:52:28 Mag. Dr.
Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
There is a kdesu bug in TDE for Debian (probably because it was built
from Ubuntu sources; Ubuntu always uses sudo.). There is a workaround (I
posted this before but it was some time back) which works consistently
here. I don't use sudo at all.
1. apt-get purge kdesudo-trinity
2. Create a file ~/.trinity/share/config/kdesurc with this text:
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=su
3 You will need to edit the menus for all Trinity root apps else
dcopserver will crash. In the "command" box put:
kdesu trinity_app --nonewdcop
And uncheck "Run as different user"
From then on you should be able to use normal kdesu (or gksu), I think
I got that right. Let me know if you have any problems after, I might
have the answer If i remember right, kdesu is from KDE4, not
trinity. Trinity comes with
kdesudo.
No, you do not remember right. KDE 3 has kdesu. KDE 4 may also have it,
I don't know. But since KDE 3 has it, it seems not unreasonable to hope
to find it in Trinity. And it is incorrect to say that Trinity has
kdesudo. It may have some software installed, but it doesn't function.
I have just rechecked that. As I said in the first place, I would have to
set sudo up to use it, and I don't want to do so.
Anyhow, if you don't know a workaround, that's fine. But someone else
may. Asking whether anyone knows one is not an unreasonable request.
The answer may well be no, and I shall be reduced to GNOME. :-(
Lisi
2:15 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
In fact, kdesudo-trinity does a dpkg-divert of normal kdesu. That
reverts when it is purged.
You should be able in any case to run a (non-Trinity) app as root with:
su-to-root -X -c application
or use gksu (you don't have to install Gnome for that)
If you want your user disabled altogether from sudo you need to edit
/etc/sudoers.
2:24 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On Sunday 25 September 2011 15:15:05 David Hare wrote:
In fact, kdesudo-trinity does a dpkg-divert of normal
kdesu. That
reverts when it is purged.
You should be able in any case to run a (non-Trinity) app as root with:
su-to-root -X -c application
or use gksu (you don't have to install Gnome for that)
If you want your user disabled altogether from sudo you need to edit
/etc/sudoers.
Just realised - I am running on GNOME at the moment in order to be able to use
wireshark in its GUI mode, which is the one for which I have instructions.
So I'll have to adjust Trinity later.
Thanks anyway,
Lisi
26 Sep
26 Sep
9:39 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kdesu in Trinity
On Sunday 25 September 2011 15:15:05 David Hare wrote:
or use gksu (you don't have to install Gnome for
that)
Thanks, David. In a hurry that was a real lifesaver. I'll do the rest of
what you advocate later.
Come to think of it, using gksu was a very simple workaround! But I'd like to
try to get kdesu going, as an exercise if nothing else.
Lisi
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