odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had a look at the kdesu code. Basically, it opens a virtual terminal,
> start su in this terminal, and use the terminal to pipe the passwd to su,
> since echo passwd | su is forbidden.
>
> The problem is that it use some KDE internals to open the term (Kterm or
> something like this)
>
> Not an easy thing to emulate with Gnome AFAIK.
just a question in that case, why is kdesud setuid :pppp
have a better look and you'll see last kdesu just uses su for syslog'ing, it is
already root at the time.
