Re: Your opinion about adding Gnome Xsu to GNOME-Utils

[Eric Gillespie <epg progeny com>]

Manuel Amador writes:

> AFAIK the only thing of concern is that a PAMified gnome-su would
> need suid b it to run.  And Xlib/GTK+ apps should not run setuid
> because of the \"yadda yadd a yadda possible undiscovered buffer
> overflows\".

gnome-sudo does not have this problem.  Strangely, i have not gotten
a response to a single one of my messages about it.  Not even a
simple "Buzz off, you're not part of the cabal."

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