root vs. user (Re: Gnome-apt hmm)

[Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>]

On Jan 30, Havoc Pennington decided to present us with:
> 
> Unless it's suid (not possible, it would open about 1000 security holes),
> there's no way for it to change its uid to 0 anyway so if you start as
> non-root there's no way to change that. 

I thought that was what "su" was for :-) And if this doesn't do,
you can just write a separate suid binary that only does the
strictly-root part and only runs with root's password in stdin,
or something (apt-su?)

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