Re: becoming root...

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> What is the best way to let a user become root in a graphical way? I'd
> like to present the user with a password entry and after entering the
> correct rootpassword the user gets rootpriviledges.

That's a difficult question, partly because of the different ways that
linux distributions work.

> Is there a way to realize this without adding an extra dependancy to my
> application?

libgnomesu tries to provide API for this. There has been lots of
discussion about it on desktop-devel-list gnome org 

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