Package consolehelper: Information
Source package: consolehelper
Version: 0.2.12-alt1
Build time: May 8, 2008, 09:50 PM
Category: System/Configuration/Other
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License: GPL
Summary: A wrapper that helps console users run system programs
Description:
consolehelper is a tool that makes it easy for console users to run system programs, doing authentication via PAM (which can be set up to trust all console users or to ask for a password at the system administrator's discretion). When possible, the authentication is done graphically; otherwise, it is done within the text console from which consolehelper was started. consolehelper requires that a PAM configuration for every managed program exist. So to make /sbin/foo or /usr/sbin/foo managed, you need to create a link from /usr/bin/foo to /usr/lib/consolehelper/helper and create the file /etc/pam.d/foo, normally using the pam_console(8) PAM module.
Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin
Last changed
May 8, 2008 Dmitry V. Levin 0.2.12-alt1
- Replaced "for user" with "for administrator" for root (#7163). - Added gtk themes support (#14058).
March 6, 2006 Dmitry V. Levin 0.2.11-alt1
- Fixed build with --as-needed.
Feb. 23, 2006 Dmitry V. Levin 0.2.10-alt1
- In client, avoid translating empty strings.