On Monday, 06 November 2006, at 16:30:16 (+0100), Essien Ita Essien wrote: > I'm just putting out feelers for ideas (a.k.a. best practices if > such exist), for how to implement Priviledged Execution for > Entrance_Edit_GUI
Best practice: Don't do it. > The problem is that, the config file is /etc/entrance_config.cfg, > which is protected file, but all users *can* run entrance_edit_gui > for now. There is no point letting any user run entrance_edit_gui. Only root should be able to run it. > Whats the best practice for implementing stuff like this in a GUI > environment? Don't. It's too hard to audit the code. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes I give myself the creeps. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. It all keeps adding up; I think I'm cracking up. Am I just paranoid? Am I just stoned?" -- Green Day, "Basket Case" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
