gui prompt for root password

[Matt Hansen]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:47, Matt Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:50, David L Norris wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:28, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/
> > 
> > Those instructions are a bit intrusive since it replaces RPM-managed
> > files and defaults all users of the computer to running Nautilus as
> > root.  Neither of which seem like a good idea...
> > 
> > 
> > So, I wrote a script to setup consolehelper and try to create a new
> > launcher in the "System Settings" menu if a launcher already exists.
> >   http://webaugur.com/wares/files/mkconsole
> > 
> > 
> > For Nautilus, you could run it like this:
> >   mkconsole /usr/bin/nautilus nautilus-super
> > 
> > Which creates a "Home Folder (Super User)" entry under the System
> > Settings menu.
> 
> I concur with David's remarks; there are better ways to implement the
> desired results outlined in my tutorial. I will be updating the document
> with Dave's ideas to make the process more elegant/safe. The script
> David posted is great and will do the job quickly and easily.. So unless
> you're feeling like doing things manually (perhaps you'd like to
> understand how consolehelper works), it's probably saner to just run his
> neat script. So, I'll link to this script as well. Thanks to David!
> 
> Regards,
> -Matt

Hi all,

I have completed updating the document which can be found at:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/

Any more errors/feedback are welcome.

Regards,
-Matt
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