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
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