Re: GNOME and superuser (privilege raising) integration

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 22:49, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2003 16:30:36 -0400, Sir Sean Middleditch scribed thus:
> > GNOME supports multiple platforms.  This is a simple fact.  No
> > technology part of GNOME or integral to GNOME can be a Linux specific
> > answer.
>
> I don't really see what that has to do with what Hongli said... I think
> the only Linux specific thing here is PAM/consolehelper right? What's
> wrong with simply dropping that on non-Linux platforms.

On top of that, my library autodetects whether an app uses consolehelper. If 
it doesn't it will fallback to su, which is available on all Unix platforms.