Integration with su for elevated privileges

Maintainer

The KDE Community

Supported platforms

FreeBSD, Linux

Community

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Mailing list: kde-frameworks-devel

Use with CMake

find_package(KF6Su)
target_link_libraries(yourapp KF6::Su)

Clone with SSH

git clone git@invent.kde.org:frameworks/kdesu.git

Clone with HTTPS

git clone https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kdesu.git

Browse source

KDESu on invent.kde.org

KDESu

Directory dependency graph for kdesu:

kdesu

Directories
	src

Detailed Description

User interface for running shell commands with root privileges

Introduction

KDESU provides functionality for building GUI front ends for (password asking) console mode programs. For example, kdesu and kdessh use it to interface with su and ssh respectively.

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