On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:25, Hongli Lai wrote: > Sven Herzberg wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > well, the people working on gksu are currently creating their own > >library for login/auth stuff. I would prefer this library because it's > >actively developed (by a team of currently 4 people). I know that Hongli > >didn't have time to create a proper website/cvs repo for libgnomesu > >because he was too busy at school and I wouldn't want to see a mostly > >unmaintained module in GNOME (Hongli, this is not against you). > > > > > > Well I don't care really. If gksu is really much better than libgnomesu, > then by all means use it! You have my blessing. As long as GNOME will > get a sane framework for this kind of stuff. What's the use cases for su-in-the-desktop? I would have thought that the big one would be a nautilus (or gnome-vfs) subprocess grabbing superuser rights to edit system files then dropping them again later. Apart from this being a fairly big code change, I would expect the neatest way to be via PAM. What other things do we want su-in-the-desktop for? And why is it better than PAM? Thanks, -- Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk> Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign.
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