On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:53:34 +0000 The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies for sounding harsh, but these are basic security > concepts that are fundamental to being able to safely provide > privileged programmatic access to resources as another user. That > sort of application is a serious security risk waiting to happen, > and is in no way a task for a novice programmer. Given the years of > testing and fixes applied to sudo to try and make it a safe > solution, you would do well to review its current source and > historical security holes so as to be at least slightly more certain > you're not making the same mistakes they did (learning from the > past). Distributing software designed to provide controlled > privilege escalation is not something to be taken lightly, though i will keep this in mind and do so. sorry about the interruption concerning sudo/urequestd. yes i am novice and i should have known better though. you did not sound harsh, but a little frustrated, but answering anyway to my novice questioning. > obviously what you do on your computer is none of my business. i do what i have to do! i learn by doing and sometimes i fall on my nose.
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