Re: GNOME and superuser (privilege raising) integration -- second try

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

And it's been another two months and still no response. :/

Hongli, I'd suggest that the best way to get this really adopted is to
find some applications that need this service and write patches to get
them to use your stuff. If it really benefits their programs, the
maintainers of those apps will help you out and push for your changes to
become more commonly adopted everywhere. 

Clearly, we need something like this but it's hard to just say 'it is
part of GNOME' until people and applications are using it. 

Thanks for your time- sorry we're not more prompt about really answering
the core of your question-
Luis

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 16:20, Hongli Lai wrote:
> 2 months ago I sent an email about this topic:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-May/msg00548.html
> 
> I read everyone's critism and made changes.
> Now I present an updated version of libgnomesu, with the following changes:
> - What was previously called the PAM service is now renamed to the 
> consolehelper service.
> - I added a new PAM service. This one uses PAM directly. libgnomesu talks to a 
> non-GUI setuid root binary that uses PAM directly.
> - Rewrote the su service. Instead of using evil ZvtTerminal hacks, I've 
> written a custom binary based on GNU su. libgnomesu talks to it using pipes.
> - No service uses /bin/sh anymore!
> 
> Are there any more things that need to be changed in order for it to become 
> part of GNOME? Suggestions? Critism?
> 
> Before you complain, read the source code first. ;-)
> It can be found here:
> http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/libgnomesu-0.9.1.tar.gz
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