/usr/sbin/drakfirewall not set to be run as root by default in kde menu [SOLVED]

[juanperucho]

I may be completely mistaken,
but it seems to me that by default, the entry in the kde menu
/usr/sbin/drakfirewall
is not set to be run as root.

[menotu]

It prompts me for my password when running that from a terminal and from the menu

[T6]

when you call that option in the kmenu it should ask for root password

that is the case here unless i saved the password for this session

is not doing that in your machine?

are you running kde4 as root?

[juanperucho]

are you running kde4 as root?

Of course not!

I'll try a livecd to see if this was just something taht went wrong in my install.

[menotu]

If you already had (or just had) the PCC (Configure Your Computer) settings open it wouldn't prompt you for a password when selecting it from the main KMenu

[juanperucho]

My bad!

Drakfirewall didn't ask me for my password, so I checked the kde menu to see if it was supposed to be run as a different user.
Apparently, that's not the way it works. Control Centre is not set to run as root either in the kde menu.

Menotu's explanation explains my mistake. I had always thought that the yellow shield meant that you didn't need to re-enter your root password only in order to get into the Control Center again.

Thanks for your corrections and sorry for wasting your time. I'll be more thorough next time.