Re: [orca-list] Administrative program accessibility on OpenSuSE compared to Ubuntu

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi Mike
Thanks, I'll try and get that working here. What, incidentally, is the  
sudo command from the terminal using? Is it just an interface to su on  
OpenSUSE?
I'll try including ORBIT_SOCKETDIR in my root environment from sudo  
and see if it works. It'd be nice to take the orbitrc hack out of  
there, as it has some rather interesting problems if for some reason I  
lose networking. Not surprising, given how it works over ipv4, but it  
can bring GNOME completely down under the right circumstances.




On Mar 9, 2009, at 22:50, Mike Gorse wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>
> > Open Yast for a good example of this, although any administration  
> > program will do--as Yast is the primary admin tool on OpenSUSE  
> > however it's a good start. I haven't looked
> > into OpenSUSE in great detail though I do have it installed here,  
> > but their sudo acts very different from most. You'll notice that it  
> > asks you for the root password, not your
> > password, and does so even from the terminal and not only from the  
> > GUI. Perhaps they're not using standard sudo, or have set it up  
> > vastly different from the way I've seen sudo
> > being configured.
>
> OpenSUSE is using gnomesu.  There are several graphical su/sudo  
> programs out there.
>
> > There was also a post on the gnome-accessibility-list a while back  
> > from someone at Novell who claimed they had patched Orbit so  
> > the .orbitrc hack was no longer necessary.
> > Perhaps they integrated this patch into OpenSUSE? See this message:
> > ORBit change needs testing
> > The message seems to indicate that this patch was put into svn at  
> > that time, but I'm not sure if that happened. The behavior of orbit  
> > in other distros seems to indicate that it
> > did not.
>
> It is included in ORBit 2.14.15.  However, it requires that  
> ORBIT_SOCKETDIR be propagated to the program running as root, and  
> which environment variables are propagated, if any, will depend on  
> the program being used to set root and the way it is configured.
>
> -Mike G-
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