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Bug#286631: xbase-clients: the xconsole menu should use sudo



severity 286631 wishlist
retitle 286631 xbase-clients: [xconsole] Debian menu entry should invoke with sudo
tag 286631 + wontfix
thanks

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:28:43AM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> a small problem with the menu entry for xconsole in xbase-clients:
> normal user can't/shouldn't use it, but with the actual conf, only
> root can use this from the window menu. Why not define it using sudo,
> so that selected users can access it directly from the menu ? Patch
> included to show how I implemented it locally.

I appreciate your report, but your suggestion assumes that sudo will be
installed, which may not be the case.

I am therefore setting this bug to "wontfix".

(It may be that the menu entry for xconsole should simply be removed.)

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