[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000217]: Adding 'run as root' to launchers and xfrun4

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=217
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Reporter:                   benxor
Handler:                    bmeurer
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000217
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2004-06-03 07:27 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-06-03 10:28 GMT
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Summary:                    Adding 'run as root' to launchers and xfrun4
Description: 
It would be great to have a 'run as root' or 'run as other user' option
added to launchers on the panel, and to xfrun4.
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 huysmans - 2004-06-03 07:58 GMT 
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"GNOME and KDE already have this functionality - why not XFCE?"

1) That's a lousy argument

2) because it's hard and has all kinds of security implementations

3) because no-one has done the work


Some of what you want, you may be able to achieve using sudo.

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-03 10:28 GMT 
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I wrote a sudo based implementation for xfce4-session, we could put that
into libxfce4util and use it.