On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 03:11, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes: > > That way, one would just add "gnome-super-user-helper foobar" in the > > .desktop file, and could rely on that function being present. > > That doesn't work at all with PAM (though it doesn't necessarily break > anything either as we can make "gnome-super-user-helper" do nothing). > However Red Hat and derived distributions are normally using PAM for > this stuff so would not use any upstream GNOME feature. Solaris also > has PAM afaik. > > For current Red Hat rawhide we have a timestamp-based "remember > password" feature for PAM, so you can sort of "assume superuser > privileges," causing a special icon to appear in the system tray, and > run config tools without a password for a set time. You didn't understand me I think. This helper would just launch whichever front-end to your nice "graphical su". On my machine for example, I would set it up so that it launched gnome-sudo. Gnome-sudo would take care of the PAM stuff (actually, it would probably be sudo in that case). Fancy system tray button is a plus, probably depending on the graphical su being used. This has nothing to do with PAM, just as a way to tell 3rd-party setup tools developers that there is some way to get their app launched as root easily, and in a way that would work across all the GNOME platforms. (after that, it would depend on if a graphical su was available for that platform, and if the setup tool even had any use on the platform, of course). Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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