ok, in kde and gnome you can prompt for the root password before running a command. how do you bring this dialog up? i thought it was userhelper, but i can't find it anywhere. -d -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot