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and subject line Re: project: Should have alternatives for graphical su and
sudo (x-su, x-sudo?)
has caused the Debian Bug report #512717,
regarding project: Should have alternatives for graphical su and sudo (x-su,
x-sudo?)
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Package: project
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if packages which depend on gksu, gksudo, ksudo, etc could use a
unified alternative (e.g. x-su for su-like and x-sudo for sudo-like graphical
frontents to su and sudo) so that one was not required to install e.g. parts of
gnome just because a package depends on gksu (there are a few packages for
which gksu pulls in more of gnome than if one leaves out gksu and uses ktsuss
or ksudo (for instance)).
I'm not sure the appropriate place for this bug, so I put it on project for
someone more knowledgable to reassign.
Thanks,
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:20:37 -0500 Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> It'd be nice if packages which depend on gksu, gksudo, ksudo, etc
> could use a unified alternative
I think graphical programs are supposed to use policykit to handle
privilege escalation (with pkexec for running specific programs). So
an abstraction layer around gksu (which is no longer in the archive)
and others is probably no longer useful.
Ansgar
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