# The &tdesudo; handbook

## Introduction

Welcome to &tdesudo;! &tdesudo; is a graphical front end for the `su` command for the Trinity Desktop Environment. It allows you to run a program as different user if the sys admin allows it. &tdesudo; is an unprivileged program; it uses the system's `sudo` command.

This program is meant to be started from the command line or from `.desktop` files.

## Using &tdesudo;

Usage of &tdesudo; is easy. The syntax is like this:

          tdesudo
          -u RUNAS
          COMMAND

The command line options are explained below.

`COMMAND`

- This is the command that `sudo` will execute.

`-u `RUNAS``

- This option allow to run COMMAND as a different user which is specified at RUNAS

## Author

&tdesudo;

Copyright 2003 Robert Gruber

&tdesudo; is part of the TDE project, for bug reports, please, report them to the Trinity developpers.

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

### Downloading

The source code is available at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdesudo .

### Compiling

In order to compile and install &tdesudo; on your system, you will need cmake.

    % mkdir -p build
    % cd build
    % cmake ..
    % make install

For further instructions, please, read the INSTALL file.