On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 17:30 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > Rafał Ślubowski wrote: > > 2008/4/6, Alan Bartlett <ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com>: > > > >> Perhaps a mention of sudo and sudoers could also be made? > > > > And consolehelper for GUI users. > > > > Regards, > > Rafal > > Hi Rafał, > > I've had a quick look at consolehelper, and I'm still not sure I fully > understand how it works, at least enough to be able to write a section > on it. I understand it uses pam authentication when running a program > that requires root privileges and requests the root password > (system-config-services being an example), but I don't fully understand > how a user would use it, although I see any application could > potentially be configured in /etc/pam.d/ > > My initial intent was to write a short article to be useful to beginners > explaining how they could become root in order to achieve common tasks > (as opposed to logging in to the GUI desktop as root!) and highlight > some of the common pitfalls ('su' vs 'su -'), as much to serve as a > quick FAQ for forum helpers to link to rather than explaining it over > and over again. I fear it is beyond my abilities/knowledge to expand the > article much further than this. > > How far such an article should be expanded, and whether we wish to cover > every conceivable method for launching something with root privileges is > probably not something for me to answer. That said, if you'd (or anyone) > like to expand on my initial remit and write an additional section, > please feel free :) > > On an additional note, whilst investigating consolehelper, I also > noticed the "Run Command..." option on the KDE Menu (for those who don't > use KDE, it's a graphical run box that also allows one to specify a > different users credentials). I could see how that would be useful to > new users who are afraid of the command line, and should maybe be > included, but again I have no knowledge of the underlying mechanism by > which it works. Perhaps a gnome user could advise if gnome has similar > functionality? As I remember Gnome did have an Application Launcher "run cmd". It is not in the current or last versions. I do not know when it was took out. Create Launcher is similiar. Ther's Lauch App in app picker? > > Regards, > > Ned > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079