aristocratos / btop

A monitor of resources
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[REQUEST] escalate privileges to kill processes #904

Open Atemu opened 3 months ago

Atemu commented 3 months ago

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Sometimes you need to kill a privileged process or the process of another user but that is not possible when running btop as a regular user (as one does).

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Btop should open a privilege escalation prompt using polkit and/or sudo when attempting to kill a process that the user is not permitted to kill.

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