Re: Proposed modules: my consensus so far

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Vincent Noel wrote:
> FWIW, I've looked at libgnomesu to add root support to
> gnome-system-log, and I don't like the idea of having an intermediate
> program just to launch gnome-system-log with the good permissions :-|.
> The usermode way of doing things seems more sane to me. I especially
> like the idea of still being able to launch the program in non-root
> user mode if the user wants to.

Usermode also uses an intermediate program to launch other programs with 
good permissions. And usermode is not installed on all distributions.