Re: Rebooting the System
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:59 +1000, Justin Clift wrote: Liam R E Quin wrote: snip Root password should not be prompted for in a gtk-engine-themed window, of course... snip Out of curiosity, why is this bad? A gtk+ theme engine is a piece of executable code (usually in C) that can live in the user's login directory, not root's. So you could write a gtk+ theme that (for example) captures keystrokes and saves them to a file. Note that most Gtk+ themes don't work this way, and even when they do, the theme engine is usually in a trusted directory, e.g. under /usr/share somewhere. Investigate consolehelper, perhaps. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Rebooting the System
a gentoo package installation doesnt require a reboot. matt On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Justin Clift wrote: Liam R E Quin wrote: snip Root password should not be prompted for in a gtk-engine-themed window, of course... snip Out of curiosity, why is this bad? I was looking into this a while ago (even wrote some code, one part for a GTK prompt, another part for a backend to authenticate and then run the commands I was interested in - (Gentoo package installation btw)). ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Rebooting the System
Liam R E Quin wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:59 +1000, Justin Clift wrote: Liam R E Quin wrote: snip Root password should not be prompted for in a gtk-engine-themed window, of course... snip Out of curiosity, why is this bad? A gtk+ theme engine is a piece of executable code (usually in C) that can live in the user's login directory, not root's. So you could write a gtk+ theme that (for example) captures keystrokes and saves them to a file. Note that most Gtk+ themes don't work this way, and even when they do, the theme engine is usually in a trusted directory, e.g. under /usr/share somewhere. Investigate consolehelper, perhaps. Exactly why I asked. On RH systems, it appears to be broken into a user level GUI prompter that asks for the root password, and a privileged component that does the authentication and task. Not being aware of the GTK theme engine problem you mentioned above, I didn't look at that side of things closely at the time. Guess they'd have to do the above but not use theming somehow. ;) Thanks for heads up Liam. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Liam ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Rebooting the System
Liam R E Quin wrote: snip Root password should not be prompted for in a gtk-engine-themed window, of course... snip Out of curiosity, why is this bad? I was looking into this a while ago (even wrote some code, one part for a GTK prompt, another part for a backend to authenticate and then run the commands I was interested in - (Gentoo package installation btw)). ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Rebooting the System
Hello everyone, I am doing a project using GTK which needs rebooting of the system. When the code is executed, the user is asked to select some details. After he enters all the details and clicks on the OK button, i need to save all the details and reboot the system. After rebooting, i need to execute the code again automatically with the next page of the code displayed. I also need to show all the saved details. Is it possible to achieve this? How can i do it? Thanking You in advance Sandeep Regards - How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: Rebooting the System
Sandeep KS wrote: Hello everyone, I am doing a project using GTK which needs rebooting of the system. When the code is executed, the user is asked to select some details. After he enters all the details and clicks on the OK button, i need to save all the details and reboot the system. After rebooting, i need to execute the code again automatically with the next page of the code displayed. I also need to show all the saved details. Is it possible to achieve this? How can i do it? What are you doing that requires rebooting the system? This behavior is a Windows-ism that normally isn't required on Unix-type OSes. Shutdown and reboot are protected operations. You won't be able to rely on them being available to non-root users. -- Guy Rouillier ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
