On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Lalo Martins wrote: > > I thought that was what "su" was for :-) And if this doesn't do, > you can just write a separate suid binary that only does the > strictly-root part and only runs with root's password in stdin, > or something (apt-su?) >
If you're going to have a different program, you have to get the current state in some kind of text or inter-program format anyway, so you may as well just have load/save settings in a general way and not fool with the root thing. When Debian supports PAM we can have a Gnome su program useful for things like this. Havoc
