From kde-devel  Sat Jul 14 16:40:34 2001
From: dep <dennispowell () earthlink ! net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:40:34 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: is kde su dialog available for other apps?
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greetings.

this may be -- if i had to put money on it, my guess would be that it 
is -- a really stupid question with an obvious answer, but the world 
being populated as it is with users who can't see the obvious, i'll 
ask it anyway.

is the su dialog as employed with the konqueror System > File Manager 
(Super User Mode)" available for use with other apps? here's why i 
ask: i just built koncd (xcdroast now having gotten just too tied up 
with gtk+ imho). it showed up on my user menu -- but the cd burner 
itself didn't, while as root it's there. it won't run suid, and while 
i could set up a group (as in the modem group for kppp), it might 
make more sense for users simply to be prompted for the root password 
before burning cds. in that there's a lot of stuff that could be done 
from the kde desktop su root, using kde tools, it seems to me that if 
there were a way to automagically trigger this dialog whenever a user 
tries to do something that wants to be done as root, it would in one 
swell foop add a very nice bit of polish. (though i'd probably lose 
the "remember the password" checkbox -- it's just *too* tempting.)

is this completely in left field?
-- 
dep
 
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