Gnome administrative interface

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:52, knowtree at aloha.com 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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