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Re: (Possible) menu code rewrite



On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Phil Cowans wrote:
> I'd concede that it is possibly too complex - on reflection I think that 
> it would be fine just to base whether a menu item is shown on whether 
> the user is capable of using sudo to run it with the required uid.

I think that's a nice idea. Unfortunately, /etc/sudoers isn't
world-readable, and 'sudo -l' requires a password, so it may not be
possible.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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