Re: Shutdown w/o root password.
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 21:15 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> So you mean that whenever I use Gnome I'm running with root
> permissions?
No. When you log in, you're you. It's gdm that runs as root.
Do 'ps aux | grep gdm' and look at the username.
> That's not possible, I cannot think about a worst security problem
> than this.
You could boot Winders :-)
> Anyway, why when I use KDE it doesn't happen? GDM starts KDE too, so
> it should be the same.
That's true; it should be. I know very little about KDE. And I'm on a
machine right now that claims it can't install KDE (amd64 etch).
I can think of a couple things: somebody could drop root, the KDE logout
window might just not have that button, and I could be wrong... Bears
looking into.
--
Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com>
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