gui prompt for root password

[William Hooper]

duncan brown said:
> ok, in kde and gnome you can prompt for the root password before running a
> command.
>
> how do you bring this dialog up?
>
> i thought it was userhelper, but i can't find it anywhere.

Consolehelper, provided by the usermode package (version number is
probably wrong because this is a RHL 9 machine):

[whooper at testweb whooper]$ ll `which up2date`
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Nov 21 14:16 /usr/bin/up2date
-> consolehelper
[whooper at testweb whooper]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/consolehelper
usermode-1.67-2
[whooper at testweb whooper]$


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William Hooper