Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)
- From: Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>
- To: Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>
- Cc: GNOME development <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)
- Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:34:35 -0400
You cannot make this work.
Even if you come up with a sandbox to protect the user from themes,
there are a billion other things a trojan horse program (any program,
not just a theme) could do. (One example: modify the user's bashrc to
set LD_PRELOAD to load an Xlib hack to sniff passwords.)
-- Dan
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