Markus Hitter [2008-11-20 17:01 +0100]:
Well, if you edit a system file as a normal user, you'd have to provide
the password, don't you? That's like vi vs. sudo vi.
Right, but sudo always times out quickly, whereas PK privileges
potentially stay forever. Also, sudo is a mechanism to run one
tacone [2008-11-19 13:56 +0100]:
What I've been told is the gedit implementation was *not hard to do*.
That sounds overly optimistic to me. In order to teach gedit to edit
system files as normal user, you need a PolicyKit protected backend
which runs as root (probably D-BUS activated).
This
Am 20.11.2008 um 16:29 schrieb Martin Pitt:
There goes the remaining bit of user/admin separation which we have,
and we can just as well have anyone work as root in the first place.
Well, if you edit a system file as a normal user, you'd have to
provide the password, don't you? That's like
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:01 AM, tacone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I talked some time ago (1 year) to a gedit developer and he told me
that he had a bunch of other things to accomplish things. He wasn't
countrary in line of
Olá Remco e a todos.
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 01:47:15 Remco wrote:
But as a temporary fix, Gedit could implement PolicyKit.
Not only gedit but every other editor (kate,kedit, etc)
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:29 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
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Olá Remco e a todos.
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 01:47:15 Remco wrote:
But as a temporary fix, Gedit could implement PolicyKit.
Not only gedit but every other editor (kate,kedit, etc)
This strawman sounds
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
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Sorry for the lon subject, but it says it all:
This is one of those next-release subjects that keeps coming. Is there any
interests in discussing on the UDS and starting patching most used apps
(mostly
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:01 AM, tacone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I talked some time ago (1 year) to a gedit developer and he told me
that he had a bunch of other things to accomplish things. He wasn't
countrary in line of principle.
It has been mentioned that the best way to fix this is to
Sorry for the lon subject, but it says it all:
This is one of those next-release subjects that keeps coming. Is there any
interests in discussing on the UDS and starting patching most used apps (mostly
editors) so that when required they escalate privileges and ask the user (if
s/he is on
