Update to Terminal Activity
Phil Bordelon
phil at thenexusproject.org
Sat Jan 12 02:27:32 EST 2008
Michael Stone and I added a 'become root' button to the Terminal
tonight. It is now part of Terminal-8.xo.
This consists of two parts:
* a new minimalist script, 'become_root', as part of olpc-utils;
* the button in Terminal.
The button is on the primary toolbar, with a new SVG created by
Michael and tweaked a bit by me. All it does is paste
'become_root\n' at the terminal; the become_root script then
runs 'su -' or 'sudo' as appropriate.
This is meant to help mitigate a major upcoming support issue:
that of the flag-day switch between 'su -' and 'sudo' as the
primary method of running privileged commands.
We, of course, welcome any feedback on this additional feature.
Phil B.
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