Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Ronald de Man (deman@win.tue.nl) [990805 21:59]:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:58:33AM +0200, Matthias Warkus wrote:
> > +++ Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:54:06AM +0200 +++
> > Ronald de Man e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> 
> > [gnome-ppp]
> >  
> > > So the novice user reboots to windows.
> > 
> > (I don't care about that kind of rhetorics, BTW.) What do you want? Do
> > you want gnome-ppp to be setuid? It would have got to be audited for
> > that, and of course there are already enough setuid programs on an
> > average Linux system, the less, the better.
> 
> Gnome-ppp could ask the user for the root password first.
> Less dangerous than a newbie doing a su and fiddling with files in /etc.

And so users who are not admins cannot use it???

Don't forget, not all systems are single-user systems, where the user has
access to the root account.
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