Re: [gnome-love] Graphical 'su' utility for GNOME

[Hongli Lai <hongli telekabel nl>]

On 2001.10.26 04:40:19 +0200 Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 06:18, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 04:09, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > > Kdesu, and therebefore gnomesu, creates a terminal for su, and sends
> > > the password to the terminal.
> > > It's not setuid root, it just "emulates the keyboard" for su.
>
> > Mhm, can you talk to Hans Petter (hpj ximian com), because I know that
> > he has done something very similiar for authentication in the Ximian
> > Setup Tools.
>
> Talked with Bastien (hadess hadess net) about this, and he was going to
> de-XST-ify that code and make a gnome-su module out of it, as far as I
> know. Don't know the status of that, though.

So what will happen from now?
Will there be a gnomesu in GNOME 2.0?
Can we execute any program as root just by rightclicking on the meu
item and input the password, or using the "Run" dialog?
That would be nice.