🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BxLvqp.B5o@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
> 
> Since I, like no doubt many others, don't like logging in as root more  
> often than necessary...
> 
> Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?
> 
> If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.

It certainly should.  I might be the numero uno complainer
in this field.  Everytime I get a program that tells me to
log in as root to install it, it drives me crazy.  Since I
actually have installed >every< program in the Archives
on my machine at one time or another, this comes up a lot. :-)

I'd like an "su" choice on the Workspace menu that
prompts for the root password.  Once you're su'd, it
should act like you're root for any new programs you start
as well as in the File Viewer.  If you hit su again, it should
confirm and then drop you back to yourself (and probably
Quit all the programs you started graphically).

I realize there are details that would take some thought
and decisions to work out, but I'd really appreciate this
feature!

ab