Gnome superuser launcher

[Paul Howarth]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> What's the correct way to add an item to a panel that will run as root? 
> I'm thinking that I want it to act like system configuration items, 
> prompting for a password before launching the app. (I want to add a 
> launcher to launch my favorite commercial editor for editing system 
> config files.)

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-access-console-enable.html

Paul.