Michael Stone and I added a 'become root' button to the Terminal tonight. It is now part of Terminal-8.xo.
This consists of two parts: * a new minimalist script, 'become_root', as part of olpc-utils; * the button in Terminal. The button is on the primary toolbar, with a new SVG created by Michael and tweaked a bit by me. All it does is paste 'become_root\n' at the terminal; the become_root script then runs 'su -' or 'sudo' as appropriate. This is meant to help mitigate a major upcoming support issue: that of the flag-day switch between 'su -' and 'sudo' as the primary method of running privileged commands. We, of course, welcome any feedback on this additional feature. Phil B. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
