Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Regarding to the GNOME System tools, I'd indeed like to remove the "su"
> calling from its code, and libgnomesu would be a good option, but I'd
> personally prefer to give the next step and making GNOME support and
> adopt a new method for authentication (call it pam_timestamp or
> whatever) regardless of the distro it's being run on.

I believe libgnomesu support in GST has been discussed. It was rejected 
because libgnomesu doesn't support SSH authentication.

Isn't PAM only available on Linux and Solaris? At least that's what I heard.

> With this issue I made some proposals to xdg-list, but didn't seem to
> create much interest, my main argument is that modern desktops (where
> "admin" tasks are somewhat usual) can't keep wrapping authentication
> tools that are >20 years old.

Yeah, I agree.