Re: [gnome-love] Graphical 'su' utility for GNOME

[Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101 psu edu>]

I beleive that kdesu is considered not secure. As Malcolm said see the
gtk archives (search for gsu). 

I don't think you need to steal the kdesu code because there is already
GNOME code to do what you want in a more secure fashion. Both red-carpet
and Ximian Setup Tools have the necessary code. See
/ximian-setup-tools/src/common/xst-su.c. It should be fairly
straightforward to addapt that code to your needs. I stole that code in
my own program (a process viewer) to kill and renice processes not run
by the current user :)

Regards,
Kevin

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 10:40, Hongli Lai wrote:
> I read the last GNOME summary, and it appears that many people
> are looking for a graphical 'su' utility.
> Su today I decided to just port kdesu to GNOME.
> The current version still depends heavily on kdelibs, but it
> use GTK+ for it's GUI and is already useable.
> The source code is here:
> http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnomesu-0.0.1.tar.bz2
> 
> Of course lots of things have to be done before it's finished.
> Any chance that this will be included in a future GNOME release?
> 
> BTW, is it acceptable for a GNOME program to depend on kdelibs?
> I don't know any GNOME machines that don't have KDE as well.
>