Menu commands to open applications as root - how to?

[Terry]

Stavros Giannouris wrote:
> Στις Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:51:59 +1100
> Ο/Η Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> έγραψε:
>
>   
>> Stavros Giannouris wrote:
>>     
>>> Στις Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:53:27 -0500
>>> Ο/Η Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> έγραψε:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 23:14 -0600, Scott Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I tried with gnomesu, but konq never came up.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> 	Whither this gnomesu?  I did a "yum search gnomesu" but
>>>> came up with nothing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Fedora/RHEL use the homegrown consolehelper(-gtk) package that does
>>> the same thing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stavros Giannouris
>>>       
>> Do you know how to use that programme?  According to the man page:
>>
>> [quote]
>> This program has no command line options of its own; it passes all
>> command line options on to the program it is calling.
>> [unquote]
>>
>> But you cannot just call the programme.  How do you get it involved?
>>
>>     
> Create a symlink to /usr/bin/consolehelper as the name of the program
> you need to run as root (e.g. if you need to run /sbin/foo
> as user, then symlink /usr/bin/foo -> /usr/bin/consolehelper) and then a
> pam configuration for it in /etc/pam.d
> This is a packager's job normally though.
>
> --
> Stavros Giannouris 

Thanks.  I've lived bravely enough for a while.

The only application I have which uses it is Smart, the package manager, 
and it is not even part of the distro; an associated developer provides 
it.  Such a waste, I'll have to try it one day.

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