Re: Su in gmc

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Andreas Hyden wrote:
> When you try to enter a directory in gmc that is read protected, nothing
> happends.
> A suggestion:
> When you try to enter it, there may come up a password dialog so you can
> "su" to root.
> Is there any problem with doing this?
> 

Numerous implementation problems; it's extremely nontrivial. However gmc
should throw up an error dialog or something if it doesn't.

Havoc