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Austin Acton wrote:
> [Contrib-RPM]
>
> -=-=-=-
> Name        : gksu                         Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 0.9.15                            Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release     : 1mdk                          Build Date: Mon Aug 25
23:28:05 2003
> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: klama.mandrake.org
> Group       : Graphical desktop/GNOME       Source RPM: (none)
> Size        : 326221                           License: GPL
> Signature   : (none)
> Packager    : Austin Acton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL         : http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/
> Summary     : GKsu is a GTK+ frontend to the su and sudo programs.
> Description :
> gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and
preserving
> environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or
> other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another
> program as another user.
>
> gksu can also act as a frontend to sudo. It installs a link
> /usr/bin/gksudo, which you can call to use this feature. When using sudo,
> gksudo respects /etc/sudoers definitions.

Austin, it seems the /usr/bin/gksudo link isn't present in this package,
so the second paragraph is incorrect, could you include the symlink (the
whole reason I wanted to try the package).

I also couldn't seem to get sudo support working right, I have in my
/etc/sudoers:

%adm    ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/urpmi.update

I am in the adm group, so I can:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/urpmi.update ftp1
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "ftp1"...
...retrieving done
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.ftp1.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.ftp2.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.jpackage.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.srpms.cz]

But:

$ gksudo /usr/sbin/urpmi.update ftp1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$
/bin/su: incorrect password

I had linked /usr/bin/gksu as /usr/bin/gksudo, and it prompts me for
root's password, whereas it should not prompt at all, or if it does, it
should prompt me for *my* password.

Regards,
Buchan

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