Re: Install program

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Marc Ewing wrote:
> 
> This won't happen.  At least not in grpm.  It'd need to be suid root
> to do that, and there is no way I'm going to do that :-).  If you
> want to install as root, you'll need to su and then run grpm.  Or,
> you can implement any policy you like with sudo.
> 

I just grafted some dialogs into GNU su, so you can do something like
gsu --command='grpm' 
I'm not sure this is a great solution but it avoids the command line.

Havoc Pennington
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