Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: > Hello, > > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:05 pm, Derek Broughton wrote: >> > There's also gksu (the GTK frontend to su), but it also does not >> > support changing the timeout of the password storage. >> >> ?? So why even mention it? You can't just install gksu, it comes with >> bonobo and gnomeui and gconf - something like an extra 40MB of stuff - >> and it's never likely to interface to kwallet. > > It's worth mentioning because the gksu package contains both a gksu *and* > a gksudo executable, the latter allowing one to gain elevated priviledges > via > sudo rather than su. Using sudo is better because it allows for much > finer-grained control of who can run what as root (or other users), and > does not require anyone to know the root password. Or Debian could buy into Ubuntu's philosophy, and base kdesu on sudo :-) But Ubuntu's kdesu still doesn't allow a trusted application (ie, in /etc/sudoers) to be run without a password. I'll have to follow that up with the Ubuntu folk. -- derek
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