On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Now, how could this be practically solved ? Maybe we should have a group > > which is configured so that it has the right to these applications, and > > thus we would not really need sudo, and a setting program to be able to > > add a user to this group, or we need a setting program to manage the > > sudoer database, and use it in the few cases that need root. > > That's because the GNOME in Debian is badly integrated. Launch gdmsetup, > or try to log out on a a Red Hat box, and you get asked for the root > password, and you can shutdown as a normal user (configurable).
Yes, i know about this, it is because redhat includes some patches since more than a year, but these patches did not get included in gnome, so we cannot beneficy from it. I have no idea how these patches do it though. Friendly, Sven Luther
