on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 09:50:40PM -0500, addiction (slaythe@innocent.com) wrote: > Greetings, all. > > This may be a newbie-ish question, but here goes. How can I make menu entries > for programs that need to be run as root? I've tried all kinds of things, and > the best thing I've come up with (which sucks, really) is opening an xterm and > doing su -c. Of course I'd rather not do this.. and I'd rather not install > kdebase > just to get kdesu. Any suggestions would be appreciated. One option is to use sudo. You'll have to run 'sudo -v' to bypass the timeout, and, depending on use, you'll probably want to set yourself up with full priviledges under sudo, which while convenient, isn't the safest thing in the world. Me, I generally just use an xterm. Or the 'run' dialog under WindowMaker. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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