Re: PROPOSAL: gksu for authentication

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Fred Smith">

> Down the road, this leads to a tab in the "users" control center applet
> where you can give finer-grained control over who can do what tasks
> (installing software, rebooting the computer, changing the time,
> configuring system services, etc.) All of these would simply be edits to
> /etc/sudoers, or possibly /etc/group.

Or, more likely, an ACL/LSM style credentials system. :-)

- Jeff

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