RE: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password
You may also want to look at gksudo, which is a gtk frontend for sudo.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: José Santos [mailto:jsmsys@gmail.com] On Behalf Of josé Santos
Sent: February 4, 2010 4:48 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:04:11AM +0000, Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:55:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Freeman writes:
> > > There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big deal.
> > > In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not sudo,
> > > is "the Debian way,"...
> >
> > That's news to me.
> > --
> > John Hasler
> >
>
> Well, in numerous exchanges over the course of years, the case was
> made to me and others that sudo can leave apps open to exploitation if
> not locked down carefully.
>
> To the extent that NOPASSWD is set and/or that password durations
> allow continued commands and/or that users are listed more liberally
> than they should be, the system is potentially open to attackers. If
> someone gains your account they can use any app against your root
> system that sudo will allow.
>
> The argument was that su is the Debian replacement to sudo
> specifically for reason, as far as general use goes. And that sudo is
> for Ubuntu users :), or special use in Debian.
>
> NOPASSWD is set for myself in sudo. But the only apps therein are
> shutdown, if/iwconfig & iwlist, cpufreq-set and iptraf.
>
> Anyway, that was part of my upbringing in the Debian universe. And I
> have followed it. However, I'm not inclined to pretend at authority.
> I do this to keep from going insane at my real business which has
> nothing to do with cyberspace. :)
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Freeman
>
I'm not a big fan of sudo, but if this can easy my life when working on my
laptop, than its definitely worth to learn. Freeman, would you be so king to
email me a copy of your suduoers file, so I can use it as an example?
I thought that this had to do with gnome policykit.
Thank you very much.
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