On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:00:36AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Timo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> graphical box for root-password. > > This is the sort of thing that I meant about modern Unices messing > things up. Why on earth should anyone need a user environment > specific su box. That should be a standard dialog controlled by the > app and the user environment controlling the GUI aspects. Too > many Windows programmers are working on Linux IMHO! ;-)
FWIW, Debian tries to address this mess with a su-to-root script which tries to do the right thing, launching gksu, kdesu or simply su in a new xterm. Tiago Saboga. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
