duncan brown said: > 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. Consolehelper, provided by the usermode package (version number is probably wrong because this is a RHL 9 machine): [whooper@testweb whooper]$ ll `which up2date` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 21 14:16 /usr/bin/up2date -> consolehelper [whooper@testweb whooper]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/consolehelper usermode-1.67-2 [whooper@testweb whooper]$ -- William Hooper
