RE: Root Permissions

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Ever heard the word... Security?  :)  Somehow I suspect that this would
be very difficult to do in a fully secure manner.

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:03:27 Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> how about a root applet. When the applet is started, it asks you for the
> root password. Then whatever you drag onto the applet gets run as root...
> (and since it already has the root password, it dosnt have to prompt you
> each time)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Michael L. Shire [SMTP:shire@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU]
> > Sent:	Friday, March 12, 1999 2:59 PM
> > To:	Adrian Hosey
> > Subject:	Re: Root Permissions
> > 
> > Adrian Hosey wrote:
> > > 
> > > : So, running GNOME with a non-root user is hard, and need certain =
> > > : adjustment...And running from ROOT is not safe, as all us known. I
> > found =
> > > : some major problems:
> > > 
> > > A while back someone suggested a "root launcher" icon - you could drag
> > > an icon to it, or type in a command, and it would throw up a dialog
> > > asking for the root password and then run the app as root. I thought
> > > that was a neat idea, but no one's written it yet.
> > 
> > IMHO, i don't like the idea of having to constantly type my password in
> > to do things like mounting, playing cd's, accessing drives, etc.  i've
> > found work arounds involving suid and fstab for some of the basics.  but
> > i hope there is an easier way to configure general access to services,
> > particularly for home machines like  mine where i'm the only user
> > anyways.
> > 
> > mike!
> > 
> > 
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