Hi Karl; On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 06:57 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Hi William, > > Please read info su and you will see that it with the proper things > will switch you to almost anything. > Yes, I know that. But I wanted to set some of my admin/system launchers so that some of my users have access to some of admin/system programs while others don't, without having to give out the root password to anyone. su is an all or nothing proposition. I presume that was why sudo was invented. > > > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I originally asked this question on the Gnome list and got this quoted > > response: > > > > > >>> Is there a relatively simple way to change admin/system programs > >>> > > called > > > >>> by gnome launchers so that they ask for / accept the users password > >>> > > and > > > >>> the sudoers file and configuration instead of only the root > >>> > > password? > > > >> I think that's distribution specific. Fedora, for example, asks for > >> the root password (or at least it did up to FC5, the last one I used). > >> Ubuntu asks for the user's password. I believe the app used is > >> gksu(do). > >> > >> > > I have just done a clean Fedora 7 install, replacing FC6. I'll ask on > > the Fedora list. > > > > So, I am asking. Can I change the su launcher gizmo to a sudo qizmo > > with out ripping things apart? e.g. change something in the launcher > > command line? > > > -- Regards Bill
