Change root > normal user?

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:06 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:20, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Mostly it is a matter of having the permissions for the program
> > to be something like 755 if owned by root.
> 
> Let me see if I understand this correctly, if I give an executable 
> owned by root a permission 775 then any member of the root group 
> would be able to use that executable same as root.  Is that 
> correct?
> 
no
755 is the same as -rwxr-xr-x
775 is the same as -rwxrwxr-x
The change you provided gives members of the group write permissions on
the file.

755 gives everyone in the world both read and execute permissions
(ignoring the selinux permissions of course).

> How would I set up a GUI front end (for a command line executable 
> that can only be run by root) so that a password dialog comes 
> requesting the root password?
> 
> -- 
> Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com
>