Security in GNOME
- From: Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>
- To: Michael Dennis <miked kerneltech com>
- cc: gnome-list gnome org, recipient list not shown: ;
- Subject: Security in GNOME
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:34:56 -0500 (CDT)
gnome-utils contains a program called gsu, which at the moment doesn't
compile correctly and hasn't been audited for security. Once it has been
security audited, then it would be safe to use in applications that would
need root access, correct?
Cody
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Michael Dennis wrote:
> > In particular, none of the GNOME libraries, as I understand it, have been
> > audited for security, so if someone wrote a nice GNOME root-password-box
> > thing, virtually everything it calls would have to be audited, which would
> > take quite a while :-(
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