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Re: Gnome and root permission (bug?)



On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> That looks more like a Ubuntu type thing to me.  Debian's gnome should
> be asking for the root password to perform administrative functions, not
>  a the user password, unless of course it is actually calling gksudo to
> do the functions.
> 
> Since I don't use gnome, I could be wrong, but KDE always wants the root
> password when doing things like mentioned above.

The gnome-system-tools are set up to use gksu by default, if run
directly (not through gksu) they request the root password.

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