Re: Security in GNOME

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Lyndon Drake writes:
>One possible solution would be to talk to sudo instead of su.  sudo only
>asks for the user's password (not the root password) which is not such a
>problem (though it still gives away some information).

That's the normal configuration of the consolehelper application.

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