F11 and super user (continued)

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 15:11:16 UTC 2009


Hi,

2009/10/8 Croombe F. Pensom <croombefp at sympatico.ca>:
> Back to the main topic : actually, I suppose I could fire up a terminal,
> do an su, and then fire up a GUI : but that has only just occurred to
> me!
> Thanks again, CroombeFP

I am not sure you are aware of Policy kit (polkit-gnome-authorization
is the name of the binary from the command line). Since you like using
GUI tools that is something that might serve your purpose just right,
and should even get around the minor "inconvenience" of opening a
terminal. ;)

-- 
Suvayu

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