Bug 1074

Summary:	add other ways to get the permission to configure
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	imz <vanyaz>
Component:	consolehelper	Assignee:	Mikhail Efremov <sem>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	rider, sem
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description imz 2002-07-12 12:57:50 MSD

Now the only way that is suggested by consolehelper to get the permission to perform a privileged operation (probably a kindd of system configuration) is to enter the root\'s password.

1. sudo is a popular way to manage administration permissions. So I suggest to add another option: \&quot;Use sudo\&quot; to the consolehelper\'s menu (appears only if sudo is installed).

2. Often a user needs some change in the system he uses, but he doesn\'t have the permission to do this. When he tries to configure something, he comes across the \&quot;root password\&quot; prompt of consolehelper. He may want to communicater his wish (what he wanted to change) to the system administrator; so I suggest to add one more option to consolehelper menu: \&quot;Send a request to the admin\&quot;, which will invoke a mailer and provide the user a quick way to compose a message to the admin. (I think, the admin should be able to disbale this feature.)

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consolehelper-0.2.1-alt2

Comment 1 Anton Farygin 2009-04-21 00:36:38 MSD

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Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2010-07-20 14:25:46 MSD

(In reply to comment #0)
> Now the only way that is suggested by consolehelper to get the permission to
> perform a privileged operation (probably a kindd of system configuration) is
> to enter the root\'s password.

This statement is not correct.  The user whose authentication to check is specified by a USER= option in appropriate /etc/security/console.apps/* file.
By default, if no USER= option is specified, the user invoked consolehelper will be tried to authenticate.