Probably stupid question, but

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mi, 2013-09-04 at 08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Ok, for starters, all the gui tools to configure it run as the user, and 
> therefore cannot modify the files involved.

That's a completely wrong assumption, i suggest you read up about dbus
and interprocess communication on modern linux :)

ciao
	oli
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