Re: Gnome Task Launcher for user with root privileges....

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Redefined Horizons wrote:

> I would like to create a task launcher for my GNOME desktop that 
> launches a program that requires root access.
>  
> How would I do this?
>  
> For example, I'd like to start Synaptic from a task launcher.
>  
> Thanks for the help.
>  
> Scott Huey
>  
> P.S. - I'm running Debian Sarge, with the latest stable version of GNOME.


install sudo, add yourself to the group sudo, and put yourself in 
/etc/sudoers

Then add the command you want to your "sessions" 
(gnome-session-configuration) and prepend "sudo " to the command.