Re: Graphical 'su' utility for GNOME

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

We have code in ximian-setup-tools/src/common/xst-su.c which is used as
a graphical su for the tools. It works and has already been tested,
hadess was talking about moving it into gnome-libs.

regards.
Chema

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 04:22, Hongli Lai wrote:
> 
> I read the latest GNOME summary, and it appears that
> many people are looking for a graphical su to get rid
> of the commandline.
> I've written gnomesu, a graphical 'su' utility.
> It is *not* setuid root; it use the ZvtTerm widget to
> create a pseudo terminal for su, and send the password
> to su.
> The source code is here:
> http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnomesu.html
> 
> Any comments on this? Is there any chance that this
> will be included in GNOME?
> 
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