Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:02 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:53 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> 
> > Could we get similar behavior to RedHat's pam_timestamp by using
> > gnome-keyring to store the password for a certain amount of time?
> 
> I would suggest against it.  It's a far better idea to use the timestamp
> mechanism than to store a password (likely the root password) in the
> memory of a user process.

We shouldn't be using gnome-keyring at all then.

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John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>