preferences - I don't get it

[Harald Hoyer]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> OTOH this "MTA Switcher" on a menu left me scratching my head.  How
> often do you perform such operation?  Every second day, once a week,
> once a year or once in a blue moon after careful consideration of
> pros and cons?  And the fact that it even works for a non-root and
> without any password got me floored.  Somebody may even use it in a
> full innocence not realizing what s/he is doing. How this may
> happen?

You may have input your root password before, so /usr/sbin/userhelper 
remembers it for a certain time.