Re: [gnome-love] Graphical 'su' utility for GNOME

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:06, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> I beleive that kdesu is considered not secure. As Malcolm said see the
> gtk archives (search for gsu). 
>
> I don't think you need to steal the kdesu code because there is already
> GNOME code to do what you want in a more secure fashion. Both red-carpet
> and Ximian Setup Tools have the necessary code. See
> /ximian-setup-tools/src/common/xst-su.c. It should be fairly
> straightforward to addapt that code to your needs. I stole that code in
> my own program (a process viewer) to kill and renice processes not run
> by the current user :)

Heh, funny, I did not know that XST had code to do what you guys wanted
to do (actually, I did not know what the differences were).

It is definetly worth looking into this.

Miguel