Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:15:34PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> * 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.

Setting up ppp is something for root. If a user doesn't have root
permission, he should ask root to set up ppp for him. That's the
way it is now, and that's how it should remain (IMO).

Ronald