On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:43:28PM +0100, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It is my impression that kdesu is considered safe where as gsu is not.
> > This probably lies in the fact that (IIRC) kdesu does not actually
> > implement any granting of privellege as it relies on "su" to do that.
> > Nobody wants to fix/audit gsu, as it does all of the privellege granting
> > itself.
> > That is fine, but how about a "kdesu" style gsu. Essentially kdesu with
> > gnome widgets instead of QT widgets. I have not actually opened kdesu
> > up yet, but I would think it would not be terribly difficult to do, it
> > is (he says ignorantly) afterall only a toolkit porting issue.
>
> it's nice, maybe for next release.
>
I had a look at the kdesu code. Basically, it opens a virtual terminal,
start su in this terminal, and use the terminal to pipe the passwd to su,
since echo passwd | su is forbidden.
The problem is that it use some KDE internals to open the term (Kterm or
something like this)
Not an easy thing to emulate with Gnome AFAIK.
DindinX
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