On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:57:04PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> >> Even if not disallowed. Even without any custom sudoers settings, this
> >> patch would work? No disadvantages by it?
> >>
> >> kdesudo works on any system. "sudo apt-get install kdesudo", that's it.
> >> No special settings required. And if one would not have it installed,
> >> su-to-root would act as it does now. No difference then.
> >
> > I just tested kdesudo and gksudo and they certainly do not work if the user
> > is
> > not allowed to use sudo, but is allowed to use su.
> >
> > Are you seeing something different ?
>
> You're right!
>
> Covering that case in the updated patch.
So your patch is doing
if sudo -n true >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
The sudo documentation says:
-n, --non-interactive
Avoid prompting the user for input of any kind. If a password
is required
for the command to run, sudo will display an error message and
exit.
so it does not work because sudo ask for a password the first time: I get
%sudo -n true
sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo
Cheers,
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