Bug#286631: xbase-clients: the xconsole menu should use sudo
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 01:29 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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> 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.
Isn't this what su-to-root in the menu package is for?
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