On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:21:55AM +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote: : Hi Folks, : : Just some education if I may please? : : I was wondering if anyone can put into layman's terms for me the : essential difference between using kdesu + password OR using sudo + : password to run certain programs as the super user (root)? sux is a shell script that acts as a wrapper. In essence all it does is create the appropriate .Xauthority entry and then run your X command via a 'su -' command. Thus you can run a command as root and still allow the X display. sudo does way more than that. It can segrate priveleges based on user, host, program, etc... It gives you options to sanitize environments, not require passwords, etc. You owe it to yourself to at least check it out. So in essence: sux: 'su - <cmd>' w/X support wrapper sudo: 'su' on speed --Jerry -- "Yo vengo de la tierra del fuego, ten cuidado cuando llames mi nombre." -- Arcadia 'The Flame'