On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:13:22AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:21:47 -0600, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > Yes, some sort of "su to root" prompt is probably a good idea; dunno > > if I can reuse the existing code or what. If not, something similar > > probably won't be hard to whip together (although I guess we probably > > have half a dozen "graphical su"s in Debian already). > > > > FWIW, the GNOME System Tools root prompts don't seem to work for me... > > > > Probably the best approach would be to use something like gksu in the > > menu entry; why reinvent the wheel? > > It would be good if we had a standard way of doing that... I talked to > walters about this some weeks ago, and he suggested it would be a good > thing to merge xsu, gnome-sudo and gksu (maybe others?).
FWIW, I think this is very important... Something that (e.g.) Mac OS X has over linux is an elegant way to acquire (some) admin privileges in a graphical context. I think Debian needs this badly... Jules
