Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno gio, 28-10-2004 alle 12:37 +0200, Hongli Lai ha scritto:
> I'm the maintainer of libgnomesu and I would like to propose it for 
> inclusion in 2.10.
> libgnomesu is a library which allows applications to run programs as 
> another user or root. Think 'su' with graphical user interface. More 
> info here: http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/libgnomesu/
> It's in GNOME CVS, module libgnomesu. Also, Benoit Dejean, maintainer of 
> GNOME System Monitor, is interested in using libgnomesu.

It could be useful for GNOME System Tool and GNOME Log viewer too.

And of course any application that needs to run with root privileges,
such as distro configuration tools, so IMHO it's a good addition for the
GNOME-is-a-platform prospective,

The pam backend is the RIGHT idea.

> I'm not sure if it should go into the desktop platform or developer 
> platform. I'm thinking about desktop platform. Any comments/suggestions 
> regarding this?

== String and UI == 

s/superuser/administrator (or whatever suggested by GNOME style guide)

Review dialog to make HIG-compliant:
      * Use the GTK-DIALOG-AUTHENTICATION stock icon in dialogs, as
        suggested in HIG -> Alerts
      * Maybe change the Run button to OK
      * remove the "verifying password" and use mouse_wait

== Bug fixing ==

Compilation fails on su-backend/su.c, Mandrake 10.1 Community, here the
log

In file included from system.h:218,
                 from su.c:68:
sys2.h:139: error: conflicting types for 'malloc'
sys2.h:139: error: conflicting types for 'malloc'
sys2.h:143: error: conflicting types for 'memchr'
/usr/include/string.h:66: error: previous declaration of 'memchr' was
here
sys2.h:143: error: conflicting types for 'memchr'
/usr/include/string.h:66: error: previous declaration of 'memchr' was
here
sys2.h:147: error: conflicting types for 'realloc'
/usr/include/stdlib.h:567: error: previous declaration of 'realloc' was
here
sys2.h:147: error: conflicting types for 'realloc'
/usr/include/stdlib.h:567: error: previous declaration of 'realloc' was
here
make[1]: *** [su.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/GNOME/libgnomesu/su-backend'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


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Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>