[PLUG] GUI sudo prompt

tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 22:53:47 UTC 2020


I still use X, so I use:
su
command &

when it does not work, usualy duoing: xhost +
before: su
works ....

Tomas

On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 11:31 -0700, Vince Winter wrote:
> Ed
> neither of those work with the program in question. I get the prompt
> then
> nothing happens afterwards.
> 
> Tom
> I will try lxsudo and report back
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 6:43 PM Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:07:44 -0700
> > Vince Winter <vince.winter at freegeek.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am looking for an alternative to gksu/gksudo (they are no
> > > longer
> > > supported) or to pkexec (getting it setup for the gui is
> > > annoying,
> > > i.e. editing policy).
> > > 
> > > I am trying to make a cinnamon desktop launch that asks for a
> > > password, keeping simple as I can to implement.
> > > 
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> > lxsudo
> > 
> > https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-sudo
> > 
> > Don't use pkexec. It's way more complicated than it needs to be and
> > is
> > some kind of windows registry-eske of XML policy configuration.
> > 
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