On 14/12/13 13:16, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Have been following the discussion, at -support, where Armin solved a > problem with gparted: essentially, care must be taken when using > consolekit and polkit, to include support for Linux-PAM, if it is wanted > to run gparted from a menu (WM or DE). > > Current instructions for gparted in the book seem incomplete and > modifications seem necessary. It is well-known that there are several > different approaches to get the job done. I introduced some comments in > last update to gparted-0.17.0, in this way, but by then, already felt > those had to be expanded. > > What is the best thing to do?
The simplest solution I've found for XFCE is to have a batch file, let's call it 'xsudo', in /usr/bin or wherever, containing the single line: xterm -geom 60x5 -T "xsudo: $1" -e sudo -i $1 (Note, $1 is not quoted in the sudo -i command) This can be run either from a terminal window or from a desktop launcher or from a menu, with the target program specified in the command line, for example: xsudo gparted xsudo "mousepad /etc/fstab" (with quotes) and it will display a small XTerm which will output the sudo password prompt, before running the command. This also shouldn't require any changes to your sudoers configuration file. (This is actually a cut-down version of "xdg-sudo" from xdg-utils, which was never formally released, it seems, but found its way into OpenSUSE - cut-down, and using sudo rather than su in the 'generic' option - OpenSUSE (12.1) actually goes the gksu route) Regards, David -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
