Re: [gnome-slackware] Two questions

[paul marwick virgin net (paul marwick)]

In article <20041014024430 16787 qmail web20822 mail yahoo com>,
Ryan Quarry <rquarry1 yahoo com> wrote:
> One of the best resources is the various #gnome channels on
> irc.freenode.net. 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check some of them out....

> There is one program that might help you called "gnome superuser" written 
> by the late Marc Finlay that is a step in the right direction. Said application 
> only provides a GUI command line to execute root commands, but
> it really can come in handy. I've written a few shell scripts that I placed
> in my root $PATH that execute commands as to negate having to enter long 
> strings to accomplish something. 

That might cover quite a lot of what I want. I've donwloaded the source
so I'll have a look. 

> Can you provide some examples of what you want to do? 

Partially I'm simply interested in the way things like Dropline Gnome
allow access to superuser-only commands from a normal user login. And I
would like to be able to customise my own version of Gnome to provide
similar functionality.

paul.

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