Bug 364875

Summary:	kdesu doesn't forward stdin
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Thomas Göttlicher <tgoettlicher>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	227086, 304669, 328839, 334498, 345870

Description Thomas Göttlicher 2008-02-26 16:07:10 UTC

kdesu doesn't forward input from stdin.

For example 
 echo test | kdesu -t -c cat
freezes while 
 echo test | sudo cat
works.

This functionality is needed by opensuseupdater-kde to talk to zypper. Until this bug is not fixed following bugs cannot be fixed: 345870 346976 304669 345425 227086 328839 334498.

Comment 1 Thomas Göttlicher 2008-03-26 15:18:24 UTC

Opensuseupdater-kde works with limited functionality even though this bug exists. Changing 'blocker' to 'normal'.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-04-17 13:13:16 UTC

echo test | su -c cat does not work either, so it's a question if this is a bug.

Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2008-06-02 21:57:39 UTC

we've switched to "su" as backend for kdesu. su doesn't accept input from stdin.. do you still need this functionality?

Comment 4 Thomas Göttlicher 2008-06-03 09:13:20 UTC

The kdesu for the connection to zypper isn't very important because I want to focus on using packagekit for opensuseupdater. The limited functionality kdesu provides right now is good enough for opensuseupdater's zypp backend.

Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2008-06-04 08:41:28 UTC

okay, I'll leave it as that because of time constraints. feel free to reopen if it becomes more important.