Re: Proposing libgnomesu for inclusion in Gnome 2.6

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> I'd like to see a real list and discussion of the advantages/disadvantages
> of each one. I believe that Hongli's library was written in response to
> previous discussions.

It is. My library's API is very simple and high-level. Apps are not 
supposed to control every single thing.
libgnomesu will use either consolehelper, PAM, a modified version of 
'su' (using shadow passwords or just /etc/passwd if no shadow is 
available) or sudo (although this latter is broken so I've disabled it).
It isn't designed to replace the entire authentication system, but 
merely to provide a high-level wrapper around whatever is available on 
your system.