Re: A replacement for gnome-sudo (was Re: localeconf package)
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 23:13, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> so, I went deep on this and learned a lot about IPC and gtk (maybe not
> enough, though... one day is usually not enough for me to learn things well)
> to create a replacement for gnome-sudo that uses su instead of sudo,
> I borrowed some parts of gnome-sudo and learned a lot on kdesu's sources
>
> It would be good if you could give a try to GKsu, and tell me if it is good
> enough to go in Debian... WARNING: I hacked the program in 1 day,
> learned almos everything that was needed to do that (forkpty, writing
> and reading between processes and some gtk stuff like pixmaps on buttons)
> on the day before... security problems may be present on it....
>
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/~kov/debian unstable/
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/~kov/debian sources/
>
> pkgname is 'gksu' (it is on non-us because there are some packages of mine
> that I must keep in there, so everything goes together, so that I don't need
> to maintain 2 repositories =P)
>
> thanks for the great work on the configlets
If I get a chance, I'll take a look at it soon.
It sounds great, but unless it ships in woody, the configlets won't be
able to take advantage of it. We could, perhaps, have some method for
autodetecting which system is available and using whatever is there, so
if it shows up post-woody, the configlets could take advantage of it.
There's also the question of security. All new code should be suspect
by default. In this case, gnome-sudo doesn't have much of an edge, but
it does have some.
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