sudo and accessibility)

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hello George or for that  matter, anyone else who would care to chime in,

As an end user, I feel strongly that these patches should get committed  as 
soon as possible, and I'm happy to test them in order to facilitate that. 
However, the reason I haven't done so to date is because I  have questions 
as to how to go about it.  Which versions of the infrastructure do we need? 
how, exactly do we get the patches to apply?  I've managed to apply  the 
at-spi patch, but am having issues with the gnome-session patch.
If someone could provide a bit of assistance in terms of what needs to be 
done, I would be happy to apply the patches, and then post the patched tar 
balls  so that other members of the community could more easily assist with 
the testing process.

Thanks,

--Al

   ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Kraft" <gk4 at austin.ibm.com>
To: <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: sudo and accessibility


> I'm a Fedora user and I just installed Ubuntu 6.05 on a test system so
> that I could take a look at it.  It appears that the end user does not
> have the root password, so the end-user must sudo to do any privileged
> work.  Is that correct?
>
> There is an at-spi, gnome-session, and gdm set of patches to enable
> accessibility for sudo run applications.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345428
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345434
>
> Could someone validate the above referenced Gnome patches on Ubuntu,
> then comment positively on them in the bug reports.  The Gnome 2.16 code
> freeze is approaching; however, this code has not been committed by the
> maintainers yet.
>
> -- 
>
> George (gk4)
>
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