do we have gnomesu command on Fedora?

[Rahul]

Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> O/H Paul Howarth έγραψε:
>> Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I need help in packaging gnome-main-menu package. For more
>>> information on my problem  you can check
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199681.
>> It's normal practice to use consolehelper in Fedora instead.
> 
> There are many environments, like personal workstations at universities
> and work, that a user is not given the root password and is only
> included in the sudoers file to manage his workstation. Thus, he can't
> use the current consolehelper method that requires a root password.
> 
> One approach to start a root-needing application is:
> 
>   $ xhost +localhost
>   $ sudo system-config-mouse && xhost -localhost
> 
> Are there *no* plans to find a solution to this security hazard and
> totally user unfriently workaround?
> 
> I understand that consolehelper is a much better option, but it just
> doesn't work for *many* users. And the above workaround is far worse in
> security than gnomesu et al.
> 

This thread shouldnt really be hijacked to discuss this but since you 
asked, the long term plan is PolicyKit

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-March/004770.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-January/004377.html
http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=66
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1173575,00.html
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/talks/system-integration-and-gnome-guadec2006-davidz.pdf

Rahul