You should probably use sudo for this and make it to run some privileged 
commands as a regular user and without passwords.

------- Original message -------
From: Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: keeping passwords
Date: 31 Август 2005 12:37
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if KDE has the ability to keep passwords for longer than
> the current session / log in. The keep password feature (when running an
> application as a different user) doesn't work as I would have excepted it
> to as it only keeps the password for the duration of the login.
>
> For instance, I use synaptic to update my desktop machine. I would like to
> have the ability to supply the root password just once and have it
> remembered indefinitely. I realize this is a bit of a security problem on
> machines that are used by numerous people but I am the only person that
> uses, and will ever use, my machine.
>
> Graham

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