Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com> writes: 
> Everyone (leading GNOME developers) complains that gnome-libs aren't
> secure enough for gsu like app when a distribution like Mandrake tries
> to include it.
>

You misunderstand. gnome-libs should not link to an suid
application. This means that some approaches to writing gsu are
broken, including the one that was (maybe still is) in gnome-utils.

gsu is still entirely possible to write properly, but you have to do
it without giving the GUI suid privileges, which is not rocket
science.

Havoc