do we have gnomesu command on Fedora?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jul 25 18:15:32 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> There are many environments, like personal workstations at universities
> and work, that a user is not given the root password and is only
> included in the sudoers file to manage his workstation. Thus, he can't
> use the current consolehelper method that requires a root password.

Put the user in the group "wheel". Put "UGROUPS=wheel" in the corresponding
consolehelper config file. Presto -- sudo-like behavior.

(But the policykit approach is the best for the future -- running GUI apps
as root is just asking for trouble.)


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