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- libgksu for Debian
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-
- The gksu library enables the user to run programs with root powers
- using one of `su' or `sudo' as backend. If the application that uses
- the library doesn't specify the backend it wants to use, the backend
- will be selected through the `/apps/gksu/sudo-mode' boolean gconf
- option.
-
- The Debian package provides two gconf default files, one of them
- setting sudo-mode to true, the other setting sudo-mode to false. Which
- one of them is used to set the default is decided through an
- alternative.
-
- Debian tools, Systems Administrators and custom distributions builders
- might want to make use of this functionality to decide whhich backend
- to use. This is done by configuring the libgksu-gconf-default
- alternative:
-
- # update-alternatives --config libgksu-gconf-defaults
-
- There are 2 alternatives which provide `libgksu-gconf-defaults'.
-
- Selection Alternative
- -----------------------------------------------
- * 1 /usr/share/libgksu/debian/gconf-defaults.libgksu-sudo
- + 2 /usr/share/libgksu/debian/gconf-defaults.libgksu-su
-
- Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2
- Using `/usr/share/libgksu/debian/gconf-defaults.libgksu-su' to provide `libgksu-gconf-defaults'.
-
- After setting the alternative you must run the `update-gconf-defaults'
- script to actually apply the setting to the gconf defaults XML file.
-
- While this possibility exists, it would be best if it is only used by
- the internal Debian infra-structure, since there are already better
- and documented ways of providing "default" settings for gconf-using
- applications both in the upstream software[0] and in the gconf
- packaging[1] itself, good for administrators and custom distributions
- builders, respectively.
-
- [0]: Read the GNOME Desktop System Administration Guide at
- http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/
- [1]: See the dh_gconf(1) script provided in the debhelper package and
- also see the /usr/sbin/update-gconf-defaults python script
- provided in the gconf package
-
- -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>, Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:06:47 -0300
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