On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for ways to smooth out administrative tasks under Gnome. > > Is there a way to configure applications or menu launchers so that when an > application requires administrative rights it will prompt, in a nice dialog > box, for the administrator password? For example, on my system, > Applications / System Tools / Login Screen Setup produces an error dialog > "You must be the super user (root) to configure GDM." But I don't want to > log on as root, and I don't want to require people to open a terminal > window and fool around with su and sudo to make it happen. I want it as > smooth as it is in OS X. Has anyone done this?
The application really has to have support for this (like the gnome-system-tools do). However, you could probably wrap "misbehaving" applications in sysutils/gnomesu to handle this for time being. Of course, gnomesu is just a su frontend, and not a sudo frontend (like MacOS X). > > Is there a nice, Gnome-like GUI tool for managing users, groups, printers, > and network shares? I know about SWAT and WebMin, but what I seek is the > Gnome family equivalent. sysutils/gnomesystemtools. They are not a complete set, but they do offer some of the functionality you seek. Joe > > Gary Dunn > Honolulu > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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