sudo for gnome apps

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 21:44:26 UTC 2009


suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/7/2 Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Is there a way to make UI apps prompt for sudo password, instead of root
>> password?
>> I'm talking about the same thing as ubuntu does.
>>     
>
> Fedora uses polkit for that. At first I wasn't convinced how that was
> better than gksu or gksudo, but after learning to use policy kit this
> seems a lot more powerful and efficient.
>   

Thanks!
What's a good howto/quickstart for polkit in Fedora?





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