RE: Super User Launcher

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

How about this:
Setuid it, have the program look in its list, and if the user is not in the
list, prompt for the root password. That way, if an administrator needs to
do something quickly to an acount that is not normaly privledged to do so,
the administrator still can...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	C Wayne Huling [SMTP:wayne@smb.larc.nasa.gov]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 16, 1999 10:53 AM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: Super User Launcher
> 
> Fox, Kevin M writes:
> > Would it be better to just keep the password in memory, I hate the idea
> of
> > having root passwords lieing around...
> > 
> 
> What is this preoccupation with the root password?  Make the gui
> setuid root, and then have root read only files which list the users,
> and the programs which these users may actually run as root.  This
> would involve some sort of login as root to setup the intial
> configuration.  Look at the source for sudo or runas...  
> 
> 
> -- 
>         FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions at http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq
>          To unsubscribe: mail gnome-list-request@gnome.org with 
>                        "unsubscribe" as the Subject.