severity 548231 minor thanks Hello,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > In English, that would be > $ LANG=C /usr/sbin/pppoeconf > Please become root before running pppoeconf! > Press return to continue... > > pppoeconf then exits. The desktop file does not indicate > anywhere the requirement to run as superuser. This makes the > menu item basically useless. You can see synaptic for an > example of how to do menu items requiring root privileges (but > note that synaptic has bug 532322). pppoeconf try to use sudo or su-to-root to become root. If you have not sudo or menu package on your system, pppoeconf warn you to become root and exit. If you have a better suggestion, don't hesitate. Perhaps add gksu support if it's installed... For example, on line 42: --8<-- +elif which gksu >/dev/null; then + exec gksu "$0" "$@" || exit 1 --8<-- Regards, -- Gregory Colpart <r...@evolix.fr> GnuPG:1024D/C1027A0E Evolix - Informatique et Logiciels Libres http://www.evolix.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
