Re: Security in GNOME

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Ah, I retract that, then.  I seem to recall being told that it used to be
> otherwise.  Thanks,
> 

It did used to be otherwise, unfortunately. However James has a sensible
point about other possible holes... which probably apply to the PAM stuff
as well. We may need to think about how to avoid the problem; maybe with a
custom entry widget.

Havoc