gui prompt for root password

David L Norris dave at webaugur.com
Tue Apr 13 20:10:42 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 14:57, duncan brown wrote:
> ok, in kde and gnome you can prompt for the root password before running a
> command.
> how do you bring this dialog up?

The authentication dialog used by many Fedora packages is
consolehelper.  Here is a guide explaining how to modify a package to
use consolehelper:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-console-access.html

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