On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:38, Sven Herzberg wrote: > WHY should we have it in GNOME? > > We should start to provide "run as" functionality in several parts of > the desktop. The first part should be the run dialog. The next big one > was Nautilus with "open folder as ...". You may find more... > > I basically would like to see the next panel depending on gksu and > starting the run as stuff like we start the gsearchtool nowadays. > > gksu is well maintained and actively developed for almost 2 years now is > is really stable (at least for me). I use gksu routinely in conjunction with synaptic. It is stable and very useful. However, I have to wonder; why does it behave like "su" and not like "sudo"? sudo removes the need for all administrators of a machine to know a shared root password, incorporates access controls for commands, and gives a log of exactly who did what. the "run as" example would still need to use 'su'-like behavior (prompting for the root password), but I think that for administrative tasks gnome needs a more sudo-like behavior (prompting for the user's password, and checking against /etc/sudoers.) Down the road, this leads to a tab in the "users" control center applet where you can give finer-grained control over who can do what tasks (installing software, rebooting the computer, changing the time, configuring system services, etc.) All of these would simply be edits to /etc/sudoers, or possibly /etc/group. -Fred -- Fred Smith <fps dividedsky net> Divided Sky Internet
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