Darrell,

As for 1., it is perfectly normal behavior that kdesu can't remember your  
password (otherwise, you would switch to root without being asked a  
password).
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Regards

Le Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:52:20 +0100, Darrell Anderson  
<humanreadable@...> a �crit:

> Some things I noticed when using kdesu to open Kate.
>
> 1. In the password dialog box there was no check box to remember the  
> password.
>