On Jul 22, 2004, at 3:10 AM, Dirk van der Walt wrote:
I plan to use this on Suse (if I can get past the problem that X on
suse does not allow me to su to root and start a GUI program!) as
well, thus, it will be cool if it is not a Mandrake specific object,
or solution.
redhat/fedora also uses a system that prompts the user for the root
password (with a gui) before running certain programs as root. a
little digging reveals it's the work of PAM's userhelper.
i would doubt this was specific or unique to fedora.
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