Task Description
Run an application as the superuser
Analysis
KDE provides kdesu for this purpose. For gnome gnomesu is available alhough it doesn't seem to be as widely distributed.
Existing solutions
gnomesu
kdesu
Proposed Solution
See xdg-su in the xdg-utils directory of the Portland CVS module.
See the RunAsUser methods in DAPI, part of the Portland CVS module.


