If you don't want to use sudo, you can type the following: $ su -c 'su <user_name> -c <program name>' Gilboa On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > In KDE, it is possible to add programs to the K menu that will be > started as another user. However, each time I start a program fro the > K menu as another user, it asks me for the user's password, with no > option of storing it. > > How can I get around this situation? I have tried to enter the user as > user:password, but that just prevented it from working properly (as if > I had entered an invalid user name). I would not mind making a > system-wide setting that says "everything that user A tries to do in > the name of user B, he can do without a password." > > Dotan > http://technology-sleuth.com/internet/index.php >