On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:36 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > There's been much noise about this simple request of mine, but not much > useful comment or help - does anyone know how the systemsettings program > determines which settings GUIs need to be run in root mode and how the > prompt to enter the root password is invoked? > > My understanding is that polkit is now supposed to take care of escalating privileges when required in systemsettings. I no longer use KDE, but in earlier versions, I ran systemsettings as root when I wanted to use the modules that required Administrator authorisation. Jim -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines