Sudo and gtksu

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 22:54:54 UTC 2009


2009/12/10 suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/10 davide <lists4davide at gmail.com>:
>> Il Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:58 +0000, Sam Sharpe ha scritto:
>>>
>>> That allows you to authenticate with your own password to most of the
>>> PolKit dialogs, which is pretty much what you are looking for. I believe
>>> a simplified GUI for setting this up is in the works, because while the
>>> granularity of the old PolKit interface was lovely, it was a bit over
>>> the top for most users.
>
>> You got right, I just want to enter my password in PolKit dialogs. (I
>> trust Fedora delevoper for the moment, I dont need to change PolKit
>> configuration about actions)
>>
> Just grant the regular user permissions to do the things that you want
> to do using polkit. Choose the kind of access you want to allow, e.g.
> you can disallow remote access. Then you should have what you are
> looking for.
>

Sorry I didn't notice Sam's response. (gmail's quoting in plain text
can be confusing :( )

What he suggested is a much more complete way of doing this. Please
disregard the last comment in my last reply.

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Suvayu

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