Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> You could, but it wouldn't be secure.  While the keyring is unlocked, 
> any application could read the root password.  Any scheme of that sort 
> will be difficult/impossible to secure.

Don't you already have to have root privilege before you can read other 
processes' raw memory?
[hongli izumi hongli]$ cat /dev/mem > /dev/null
cat: /dev/mem: Permission denied