Re: [Usability] Re: Button ordering
- From: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>
- Cc: Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>, Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>, "manaspa pacbell net" <manaspa pacbell net>, Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>, Alan Cox <alan redhat com>, "gnome-hackers gnome org" <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: Button ordering
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:57:13 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> This is soooo not related to the original thread...
>
> On 04Nov2001 05:24PM (-0800), Seth Nickell wrote:
> >
> > I have absolutely no clue about these issues or how feasible this stuff
> > is. For example, is it possible to spawn a thread as a different user?
> > (probably not, just fishing). Or maybe we could do this with CORBA or
> > something. *shrug* I have absolutely no clue. MacOS/X seems to be able
> > to do something like this, no clue if its easy for developers or not.
>
> Here is how OS X does it:
>
> * There is an `admin' group of users who should have priveleged access.
>
> * There is an API to prompt a user for the username and password of
> any user in the admin group, and launch a child process as root if
> authentication is successful.
>
This part is BSD roots - under BSD you traditionaly need to be a member of
a group (historicaly called wheel) to be able to su to root. If you aren't
a member, knowing the root password does you no good. Calling "wheel"
"admin" is just being user friendly, I guess 8-)
[snip]
>
> There is really no magic here, we could implement something similar
> using PAM, CORBA and a bit of UI gadgetry.
>
The correct way top do is to require people to have kerberos and not
reinvent tht part. Whetever that is feasible or not is a different matter.
> Regards,
>
> Maciej
>
Sander
"I don't think there is intelligent life within our solar system"
-- Brian Behlendorf
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