Bug 364875 - kdesu doesn't forward stdin
Summary: kdesu doesn't forward stdin
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE4 Workspace (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Dirk Mueller
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Blocks: 227086 304669 328839 334498 345870
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Reported: 2008-02-26 16:07 UTC by Thomas Göttlicher
Modified: 2008-06-04 08:41 UTC (History)
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Found By: Development
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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.