Re: Starting panel apps with root pwd request

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:26, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> > I have a few applications that need root priv in order to be run.  In
> > the default gnome, things like system monitor have a prompt that pops
> up
> > and asks for a root password when the app is started.  I'm trying to do
> > the same thing for these other apps but I can't figure out where to set
> > root priv via that same password pop-up screen before the app starts.
> >
> > Anyone have any pointers?
>
> I haven't looked at how the system monitor does this, but try googling
> for "xsu", "gnome xsu" and "gksu".  These are all wrappers which can
> prompt the user for a password before launching an app.
Actually, there are no traces of wrapper execution in the default apps 
that do this, as far as I can tell.

I think they are using pam/console.apps, possibly along with consolehelper 
instead. Have a look at the manual pages for those...


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