lxsu(1) execute a command as privileged user

Other Alias

lxqt-sudo

SYNOPSIS

lxqt-sudo option [command [arguments]]
lxsu [option] [command [arguments]]
lxsudo [option] [command [arguments]]

DESCRIPTION

lxqt-sudo (and symlinks lxsu, lxsudo) is a graphical QT frontend for plain sudo(8) or su(1) (for requesting optional password in GUI fashion).
When invoked it simply spawns child sudo or su process with requested command (and optional arguments). If sudo/su requests user's password, the GUI password dialog is shown and (after submit) the password is provided to backend.

OPTIONS

option is one of:

  -h|--help      Print help.

  -v|--version   Print version information.

  -s|--su        Use su as backend (default for lxqt-sudo & lxsudo is sudo, for lxsu is su).

  -d|--sudo      Use sudo as backend (default for lxqt-sudo & lxsudo is sudo, for lxsu is su).

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues

AUTHOR

This manual page was created by Palo Kisa <[email protected]> for LXQt project.