Re: root login

[Randy Duran <duranr@earthlink.net>]

On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 04:27, Sven Luther wrote:

> Now, how could this be practically solved ? Maybe we should have a group
> which is configured so that it has the right to these applications, and
> thus we would not really need sudo, and a setting program to be able to
> add a user to this group, or we need a setting program to manage the
> sudoer database, and use it in the few cases that need root.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther

I like the way the synaptic package does it.  It calls "gksu -u root
<command>"  When You click on it a pretty gui pops up asking you for the
root password.  Simple, and straightforwad.  If you don't know the
password, you can't use it.


Regards,
Randy