https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339925#c10
Mark Gordon changed:
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AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com
Component|Usability |GNOME
--- Comment #10 from Mark Gordon 2007-11-09 14:52:34 MST ---
XDG-SU(1) XDG-SU(1)
NAME
xdg-su - run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root
password
Again, su != sudo. Maybe there needs to be an xdg-sudo.
One problem that would remain is that the su-based functionality is widely
integrated (at least in Gnome, dunno about KDE) through libgnomesu. Digging a
bit deeper, I find that libgnomesu once had support for a sudo backend, but
that code was removed for technical reasons:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-October/msg00425.html
That thread also has some discussion of how gksu works and why libgnomesu has
chosen not to take that approach. It might be worth looking into how Debian
(and, by extension, Ubuntu) have worked around those problems; it's possible
they've patched sudo.
I'll let the Gnome team take a look at this first.
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