Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Hongli Lai wrote:

> Don't you already have to have root privilege before you can read 
> other processes' raw memory?
> [hongli izumi hongli]$ cat /dev/mem > /dev/null
> cat: /dev/mem: Permission denied

When the keyring is unlocked, you can just ask the keyring daemon for 
the password.  No need to go behind its back.

It simply isn't suitable for storing something like the root password 
(it is good enough for storing many web passwords though).

James.