[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000122]: Add 'run as root' or 'run as other user' option to xfrun4

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The following NEW bug has been ADDED.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=122
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Reporter:                   benxor
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000122
Category:                   other
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-02-23 02:30 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-02-23 02:30 GMT
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Summary:                    Add 'run as root' or 'run as other user' option to xfrun4
Description: 
I've discovered that due to some low-level security change in my system
after an update, I can no longer run X applications from the command line
as root. This makes it impossible to start a program as root, in X, which
I need to do in order to read documents off my windows drive (mounted, as
always, with root access only).

Could a 'run as root' or 'run as different user' option be attached to
launchers in the panel and/or the xfrun4 run dialogue to allow users to
run different processes as root in XFCE regardless of the permissions
constricting them from doing so from a terminal?
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