Odd, does not seem to be in joyride as of yet. -ffm
On Jan 12, 2008 2:27 AM, Phil Bordelon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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