Re: [gnome-love] Graphical 'su' utility for GNOME

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 06:18, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 04:09, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > Kdesu, and therebefore gnomesu, creates a terminal for su, and sends
> > the password to the terminal.
> > It's not setuid root, it just "emulates the keyboard" for su.

> Mhm, can you talk to Hans Petter (hpj ximian com), because I know that
> he has done something very similiar for authentication in the Ximian
> Setup Tools.

Talked with Bastien (hadess hadess net) about this, and he was going to
de-XST-ify that code and make a gnome-su module out of it, as far as I
know. Don't know the status of that, though.

-- 
Hans Petter