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Re: If you care about debian's security read this



On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 13:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > details in bug #134521, which was grave but has just being reseverited
> > 'wishlist' by configlets' maintainer..
> 
> I'm sorry, but this appears to be wishlist item indeed.  Currently,
> gnome-sudo only supports an all-or-nothing approach: either the user
> has got rights equivalent to the superuser, or it hasn't.
> 
> (However, the "security" tag should still remain in place, I think.)

Hmm.  A wishlist security bug?  It just doesn't sound right. :-)

I agree that there is a security impact to this, though; gnome-sudo
would be better if it supported this.  With all the flamage, I'm tempted
to submit a patch to do this.




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