Re: Thoughts & suggestions

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

Lyndon Drake wrote:

> > (8) There should be a way for gnome apps that ideally require root access
> > to request the root password in a simple popup dialog which contains
> > a field to enter the root password or run the app as non-root. That way
> > we won't have to manually su to root and run the app. Programs that this
> > would be useful for or GnoRPM, Update Agent, Disk Management Tool, etc.
> 
> This was happening at one stage.  It would make GnoRPM so much more useful
> than it already is.

I'm not sure that this could be accomplished without the help of the
underlying OS.  For systems which use PAM, this should be possible, but
I'm not sure about other authentication structures.  I don't, however,
code anymore, so I can't say how easy hard this would be.
	Greg