Re: Lockdown... Take 2

[Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:35, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> That said, even if one uses ACLS to do the actual lockdown, there is
> some some use in keys like this. When in locked down mode we want to
> avoid presenting the locked down things from the ui. Having "open
> terminal" in the menu, but giving a "permission denied" dialog isn't
> very nice. However, we need to point this out so people don't think
> enabling the disable_terminal key makes their system safe.

Are gconf keys absolutely necessary? Can't we check for exec permissions
before showing the menu item, and simply not show it if it wouldn't
work?

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Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk>