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#1 2013-12-29 19:31:20

wftomlin
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Thunar as root

I've added a launcher to open Thunar as root (gksu thunar %f). It works, but opens the file system without prompting me for a password.

How do I get around this?

Thanks

*EDIT*

There seems to be some sort of cache that remembers your password. I stepped away for an hour or so and when I fired up the launcher, it DID ask for a password. When closing and re-opening, it went straight to the files without asking for a password.

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#2 2013-12-29 20:49:58

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Re: Thunar as root

Yes, sudo can cache passwords for a set period of time.

sudo -ll

...to view your current settings (look for the timestamp_timeout value, in minutes, as password cache timeout).

To edit this value,

sudo visudo

...and change that value as you wish. If you want to always be asked for a password, set the value to 0.


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#3 2013-12-30 00:58:44

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Re: Thunar as root

The OP is using gksu, not sudo.  I use Fedora, which uses beesu, and I don't think it caches your password as sudo does.  (I know it doesn't use sudo, because I removed it from my system long ago because I never use it.)

I might suggest, wftomlin, that you check any man pages for gksu and see if there's a way to configure it not to store your password.


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#4 2013-12-30 01:25:35

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Re: Thunar as root


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#5 2013-12-30 01:37:10

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Re: Thunar as root

And beesu is a graphical wrapper for "su" but doesn't need sudo installed.  As I wrote above, there's probably a config file and if gksu does cache your password, the timeout period should be configurable, even if you can't disable caching completely.  (I'd bet that setting the timeout to 0 would have that effect.)  The config file for beesu is /etc/beesu.conf, and you'll probably want to see if /etc/gksu/conf exists because if it does, it's almost certain to be the right place.


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#6 2013-12-30 01:50:21

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Re: Thunar as root

Since gksu is a front-end for sudo, the config file for sudo is /etc/sudoers which should be edited via:

sudo visudo

...and the cache timeout configuration keyword is "timestamp_timeout". If set to 0, it disables the caching (as noted in my post #2).

I think we're arguing the same thing.


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#7 2013-12-30 02:01:28

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Re: Thunar as root

Yes and no.  We're both telling the OP that the timeout is configurable, but we're both pointing to different files.  As you have gksu installed and I don't, your advice is more accurate than mine.


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#8 2013-12-30 21:45:08

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Re: Thunar as root

Thanks guys. I recently switced from Ubuntu to Mint Linux to Xubuntu. I'm not familiar with xfce, but learning. I appreciate your help!

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#9 2014-01-02 01:21:07

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Re: Thunar as root

How does Xubuntu compare to Mint XFCE, in your opinion? Or were you using one of the other desktop environments when you were running Mint?

The only thing that I can remember reading was that Mint XFCE used less RAM than Xubuntu (and that might have been incorrect, for all I know).

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