sudo problems

**josolanes** · 07-20-2005

I'm running Gentoo Stage 3 and I recently set up sudo so that any user using it can run any command

I've run into a problem, though. If I try to run a gui-based program from a terminal with sudo, I get this error (in this case with kcron):

Code:

kcron&#58; cannot connect to X server

It seems a bit worse when I try running OpenOffice Wrter with sudo, as X just freezes with no response. I have to ctr+alt+bckspc to get out of it

How can I fix this? I'd really like to because, atleast with kcron, I have to log into X as root to set up a cron task from within it and I'd rather not waste my time doing this (or potentially mess something up by running X as root).

Thanks in advance!

**Vergil83** · 07-20-2005

try

Code:

su -c program_name

or with sudo

**josolanes** · 07-20-2005

Originally Posted by Vergil83

try

Code:

su -c program_name

or with sudo

same idea

Code:

user@comp ~ $ sudo kcron
Password&#58;
kcron&#58; cannot connect to X server
user@comp ~ $
user@comp ~ $ su -c kcron
Password&#58;
/bin/bash&#58; kcron&#58; command not found

hmm...another problem maybe? i've noticed this with a couple of things...where my normal user could open a program from the terminal (without getting full permissions to do whatever), but root might not even recognize it as a command. even when i do...

Code:

user@comp ~ $ su
Password&#58;
comp user #

then run the command...i get the same thing as when i try "su -c kcron"

what might be wrong?

**Vergil83** · 07-20-2005

very odd......

I don't have kcron, so I can't test that program, but it worked with me and openoffice....

try using

Code:

kdesu -c program_name

for kde programs
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kdesu/

**josolanes** · 07-21-2005

Originally Posted by Vergil83

very odd......

I don't have kcron, so I can't test that program, but it worked with me and openoffice....

try using

Code:

kdesu -c program_name

for kde programs
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kdesu/

yay!

that was perfect....works great now!

thanks a lot!

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