[TriLUG] RH 8.0 desktop root auth. tool

[Matt Matthews]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:41:39PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Right, the "proxy app" is called "consolehelper" (there's also a
> "userhelper" for other situations).  The way it works is that the
> symlink to consolehelper is in /usr/bin, and the actual application is
> in /usr/sbin.  So if you want to call the app without the "front end" of
> consolehelper, you can just run it from /usr/sbin.  You'll probably want
> to download the "usermode" SRPM from a red hat mirror and crack it open
> to see the details.

A-ha! Thanks, Jeremy. This is just the kind of info I needed. :^)

Take care,
matt

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