Re: root login

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Bastien Nocera 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.
> 
> That's because the GNOME in Debian is badly integrated. Launch gdmsetup,
> or try to log out on a a Red Hat box, and you get asked for the root
> password, and you can shutdown as a normal user (configurable).

Yes, i know about this, it is because redhat includes some patches since
more than a year, but these patches did not get included in gnome, so we
cannot beneficy from it. I have no idea how these patches do it though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther