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root/admin authorization and PackageMaker
Post 48340 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Wednesday 3rd of March 2004 11:39:09 PM
03-04-2004
Quote:
Originally posted by LivinFree
I do know root is not enabled by default. Administrator is. Depending on the administrator scripts, you may be able to require admin privelages, and sudo your commands.
Either way, they'll be prompted for either an admin, or the root, login. My gut instinct would tell me to go with administration requirements, not root.
I do know root is not enabled by default. Administrator is. Depending on the administrator scripts, you may be able to require admin privelages, and sudo your commands.
Either way, they'll be prompted for either an admin, or the root, login. My gut instinct would tell me to go with administration requirements, not root.
nice catch!(though, that begs the musical question, if root being enabled or not could cause an installation to go belly up, how does Apple manage updates?
i'd guess from the melodious query that root is not a requirement for nearly every install...)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
su-to-root
su-to-root(1) Debian GNU/Linux manual su-to-root(1) NAME
su-to-root - A simple script to give an `interactive' front-end to su. It can be used in menu entry commands to ask for the root password SYNOPSIS
su-to-root [-X] [-p <user>] -c <command> DESCRIPTION
Most menu entries simply start an editor or a game or whatever. But some menu entries would like to give the user the ability to change important settings in the system, that require root privileges. su-to-root can be used to ask for the root password. OPTIONS
-c <command> The command to execute as a string. This option is mandatory. -p <user> The name of the user to change to, instead of root. -X The command is a X11 program that does not require a terminal. This is to be used with menu entries that declare needs="X11". ENVIRONMENT
SU_TO_ROOT_X Select the su-like program called by su-to-root -X. Supported values are gksu, kdesu, kde4su, ktsuss, sux, gksudo and kdesudo. kde4su denotes the KDE4 version of kdesu. When this variable is not set su-to-root will currently try to use gksu, kdesu, kde4su, ktsuss, sux and the built-in code, in that order with the exception that under a KDE session, kdesu and kde4su are prefered over gksu. The exact set of programs to try and their order is subject to change without notice. SU_TO_ROOT_SU Select the su-like program used in text mode. Supported values are sudo, sux and su, the later being the default. FILES
/etc/su-to-rootrc ~/.su-to-rootrc su-to-root will source these files at startup in this order. This lets you define and modify the environment variables above without restarting your X session. COPYING
su-to-root is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (GPL 2.0 or greater). AUTHORS
Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org> X11 support by Morten Brix Pedersen and Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> SEE ALSO
update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html Debian Project 20 October 1998 su-to-root(1)