Re: GnoRPM feature and Re: Gnome su

[Erik Walthinsen <omega cse ogi edu>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Federico David Sacerdoti wrote:

> I believe PAM could be used for the authentication. The benefit would be
> that a normal user could quickly manipulate packages without bringing up a
> terminal.

This would mean gnorpm has to be setuid root.  Not so cool.  A much better
way to do it would be to have a separate, audited setuid program, hmm,
sounds like su/sudo...  Sounds like gsu (if it's what I think it is).

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