Update to Terminal Activity

[ffm]

Odd, does not seem to be in joyride as of yet.

-ffm

On Jan 12, 2008 2:27 AM, Phil Bordelon <phil at thenexusproject.org> wrote:

> 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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