Make consolehelper more liske sudo?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 21.03.2005 kl. 16.29 skrev Mike Hearn:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:01:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Software installation *definitely* needs some sort of authentication and
> > special privilege. Sure, this needs to be made so it's not intimidating, but
> > we also shouldn't shoot ourselves in the head.
> 
> You're thinking like an admin - yes for managed networks users probably 
> should not be able to install whatever they like but bear in mind anybody
> can stick software in $HOME if they really want to, even if it's mounted
> no-exec. So I think what you really want to avoid is unpredictable system
> reconfiguration/change rather than software installation per-se.
> 
> And yes for home/personal systems clearly any root/sudo prompts at all are
> silly, the user should never be prompted for a password once they have
> logged in - not even for software installation.

I disagree - the pasword promt is a good indication of "you are now
doing something that will (permanently) change your system
configuration". And the gtk pasword dialog (gtksu?) also tells which
program asked for root acess.