Re: [gnome-love] Graphical su utility for GNOME (updated)

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Hongli Lai wrote:
> Kdesu is way too complex to port, so I rewrote gnomesu from
> scratch this morning.
> The result is here:
> http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnomesu-0.1.0.tar.bz2
>
> This version depends only on gnome-libs, and is fully GPL'ed.
> It use the ZvtTerm widget to emulate a terminal to pass
> a password to su, so no dangerous setuid root stuff.
> There are still minor things to be done, but it works
> pretty well.
>
> Comments? Suggestions?

Nice that it is now only has GNOME and system dependencies. And it looks
to be much shorter, too. Looks like the rewrite was a good idea. :-)

I'm going to read over the code in more detail later on.

> BTW, when I send email to this list, there's a huge delay
> (12 hours!). Is this a common problem or is this list moderated
> or something?

Yes, it is moderated. The two moderators live in time zones that are 12
hours apart, so most messages get approved within a few hours, but it's
not instantaneous. If faster responses are important on development
questions, then the gnome-devel list is probably the most appropriate.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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