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Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> OK I stand corrected (makes sense, actually). But I still don't
> get:
>
> (a) It appears that invoking /usr/bin/system-config-* as root does
> not redundantly prompt for the root password as has been suggested
> in this thread.
/etc/pam.d/system-config-users (for example) includes config-util,
which contains:
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
> (b) How does consolehelper know what utility to invoke? It can't be
> quite as simple as you suggest. For example,
> /usr/bin/system-config-users is a symlink to consolehelper, but
> there is no /usr/sbin/system-config-users program for consolehelper
> to invoke.
The consolehelper configs are stored in /etc/security/console.apps/.
system-config-users contains:
USER=root
PROGRAM=/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users
SESSION=true
Hope that helps (and hope I've not missed something important :),
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