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Bug#479822: marked as done (Use "su-to-root -X" as su wrapper in menu/desktop files)

Your message dated Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:36:45 +0200
with message-id <200904202136.45846.ferdi1604@gmx.de>
and subject line Re: ksystemlog
has caused the Debian Bug report #479822,
regarding Use "su-to-root -X" as su wrapper in menu/desktop files
to be marked as done.

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Package: ksystemlog
Severity: important
Version: 0.3.2-1
User: debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: su-to-root
Tags: patch

Hi,

The menu item or .desktop file:

  /usr/share/applications/kde/ksystemlog.desktop
 
uses an su wrapper other than su-to-root such as "gksu" or "kdesu". On
Debian systems, please use "su-to-root -X", which will pick the correct
wrapper based on what's installed on the system and the current desktop
environment.

Using su-to-root is also important for Live CD systems which need to use
sudo rather than su (su-to-root permits global configuration to use sudo).
This change still important even if the package is targetted at (or uses a
widget toolkit closely related to) a particular desktop environment.

The solution is trivial:

 - Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/my-binary
 + Exec=su-to-root -X /usr/sbin/my-binary

Lintian reports this error as "su-wrapper-not-su-to-root".


Regards,

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Chris Lamb, UK                                       chris@chris-lamb.co.uk
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Version: 4:4.2.2-1

As this new version uses:

Exec=ksystemlog %i -caption "%c"

to gain adminstrator permissions the issue with "su-to-root" is resolved in 
the kde4 package.


Thanks for reporting,

Ferdinand Ebert

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