Em Dom, 2005-07-17 às 07:45 -0700, Brian escreveu: > I use gentoo as my distribution. When choices like this are available > (as ./configure options) they are assigned "USE" flags. There are > generic ones like "gnome", "kde" to enable them or specific ones for > specific functionality. I think a ./configure option would be good. As > more code is available for different desktops, it's option can be added. the gnome-keyring support is already a configure option on libgksu; it might keep being but I'll need to figure out a way of gksu's configure script to detect wether libgksu is compiled with its support enabled or not > > For the second problem, maybe I could use the session keyring by > > default, thus requesting that the user types the password again at least > > once per session. Allowing the admin/user to select which keyring they > > want to use is planned. > > > I like this option better. (Although I rarely log out.) It is the more > secure choice. Right. > I have been developing a gtk gui frontend for gentoo's portage package > management system. Since we did not yet have su/sudo support built-in > users that wanted to install/remove packages with it had to run it with > root privileges. The complaint and subsequent feature request was to > indicate whether it was being run as root or not. When run as a user it > let's the user browse the package database, etc.. So, I think a > "confirm root privileges" popup dialog should be default. Perhaps a > config option to boldly bypass such a warning for those foolhardy users. > After all linux is about choice :) Yep. I would very much like suggestions on the best way to display that information. I'm considering turning the gksu configuration into a gconf-based one instead of a simple config file. Otherwise I'm going to have to implement multi-level configuration myself (like, system-wide, user preferences, etc) I could have a checkbox 'never display this message again' on that dialog which would modify a gconf key that would server that purpose. Thanks, -- kov@debian.org: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>
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