On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:52:59PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/04/2013 05:44 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that.
>That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can
>restrict allowed actions to a user present at the physical terminal (as
>the OP wanted), I don't think sudo can do that.
Fedora comes with beesu and things such as yumex use it. Of course, you
could always just turn on the suid bit on the executable, but I'd leave it
as a last resort, especially as you'd have to do it again any time the file
gets updated.
You just mentioned things that one should not do, specially on a system
where curious students are bound to fool around.
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Suvayu
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