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[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 22, 2004, at 3:10 AM, Dirk van der Walt wrote:

> I plan to use this on Suse (if I can get past the problem that X on 
> suse does not allow me to su to root and start a GUI program!) as 
> well, thus, it will be cool if it is not a Mandrake specific object, 
> or solution.

redhat/fedora also uses a system that prompts the user for the root 
password (with a gui) before running certain programs as root.  a 
little digging reveals it's the work of PAM's userhelper.

i would doubt this was specific or unique to fedora.

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