Re: Change root > normal user?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:06 -0400, linuxmaillists charter net wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:20, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Mostly it is a matter of having the permissions for the program
> > to be something like 755 if owned by root.
> 
> Let me see if I understand this correctly, if I give an executable 
> owned by root a permission 775 then any member of the root group 
> would be able to use that executable same as root.  Is that 
> correct?
With permissions 750 only root and member of the root group could run
this program.
> 
> How would I set up a GUI front end (for a command line executable 
> that can only be run by root) so that a password dialog comes 
> requesting the root password?
I suspect the asking for the root passwd is a function of the program
run not its permissions.
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