Re: A replacement for gnome-sudo (was Re: localeconf package)
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:13:27AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2002 19:57:25 -0500
> Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > The configlets need a way to run programs as root (specifically debconf
> > stuff and the postinsts of the programs they configure). Any way they
> > can do that is fine.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the only way I know of to ask for the root password via
> > an X window halfway safely (and without the ugliness of "xterm -e") is
> > with gnome-sudo. If you have any better ways, let me know.
> 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
You may be interrested in browsing the "ssh-askpass-gnome" source code, too.
I think what you've done is more generic, but ssh version can be considered
as secure, I think.
sorry for the noise, Mt.
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