On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 21:42 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 9:32 PM, masch <the.masch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > Is it possible to include any utility link in Ubuntu gksu, gksudo, > > gnomesu or gnomesudo?? > > It's really usefully for some scripts We have consolehelper which is similar to graphical sudo helpers. > AFAIU (as far as i understand) PolicyKit is going to handle those > sorts of details. It's far more ideal, because then for some users, > they can never escalate their privileges, some users can only escalate > with a root password, and some with their own password. It's this > understanding that it will be here "any time soon" that's kept me from > complaining about the obvious lack of gksudo. PolicyKit actually been in the distro since F8. Granted for F8 it's only used for mounting partitions from non-hotpluggable drives with non-removable media (e.g. Windows partitions). For F9 a lot more stuff will use it already written: - intlclock - pulseaudio (for gaining realtime auths) - add/remove software (though the jury is out whether PackageKit will replace pup/pirut on the F9 desktop live cd) written but not in rawhide yet - gnome-system-monitor (kill processes, adjust priority) planned - gdm (for shutting down/rebooting the box) - avahi (for publishing network services) - NetworkManager (connect to networks) - gvfs: Nautilus/gedit/etc. (for manipulating files you don't own) I'm also planning to write a small replacement for consolehelper (going to write feature pages / file bugs soon) so you can use polkit-auth(1) http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/polkit-auth.1.html or the polkit-gnome-authorization UI http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkitg-auth-1.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkitg-auth-2.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkitg-auth-3.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-icon-and-vendor.png to manage who is allowed to run a given X application as root. Finally, I'm working with the FreeIPA team to store authorizations in the directory. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
