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

