Re: GNOME privilege library

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeudi 13 janvier 2005 �7:52 +0000, Mike Hearn a �it :
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> > The concept of having the user enter a magic password over and over to
> > achieve basic sysadmin tasks like setting the date/time seems pretty
> > broken usability-wise to me but I have no idea how else to do it :)
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> sudo ou suid binaries ?

I would avoid prefer not having suid binaries or sudo for some of the 
reasons that Sean stated.

The best solution I have seen was having a Dbus based deamon to provide 
the necessary backend to make changing trivial safe things like 
date/time hassle free. Of course it would need to be extensible with a 
plugin interface so that other "root" services can be easily provided for.


jamie.



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