Re: keeping passwords
Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:05 pm, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > There's also gksu (the GTK frontend to su), but it also does not
>> > support changing the timeout of the password storage.
>>
>> ?? So why even mention it? You can't just install gksu, it comes with
>> bonobo and gnomeui and gconf - something like an extra 40MB of stuff -
>> and it's never likely to interface to kwallet.
>
> It's worth mentioning because the gksu package contains both a gksu *and*
> a gksudo executable, the latter allowing one to gain elevated priviledges
> via
> sudo rather than su. Using sudo is better because it allows for much
> finer-grained control of who can run what as root (or other users), and
> does not require anyone to know the root password.
Or Debian could buy into Ubuntu's philosophy, and base kdesu on sudo :-)
But Ubuntu's kdesu still doesn't allow a trusted application (ie,
in /etc/sudoers) to be run without a password. I'll have to follow that up
with the Ubuntu folk.
--
derek
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