On 11/7/06, Brian Mattern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He still needs a solution to his problem. Namely "How do I let people > configure entrance from a gui without having to touch the command line". > > One possibility is to have an "entrance" group that has write > permissions to the config file. Then just require the users that want to > run the config editor to be part of this group. > > rephorm.
This is really distro/OS specific as to how the write permissions should be setup. SELInux settings vary across Linux distros, Solaris has RBAC, and the choice of groups is going to differ as well. But using a group is one option distros may use to control permissions. If entrance is going to present the config option at the login screen, I think a good option to correctly handle permissions is to use the config button to set a special session that is only a maximized version of the config editor. Then the user must authenticate and the session is launched with their permissions. If they have the permissions necessary to write the global config, then they can make the global changes, otherwise they are allowed to save their settings to a location of their choice. This would also allow regular users to create test configs which they can run the entrance gui against to see the effects of their changes before they deploy to the system config. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
