On 14/07/17 11:28, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:16:53 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 14/07/17 08:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:11:57 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 14/07/17 02:18, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>>>>> Greetings to the enlightened!
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have an application you would like to see ported to E/EFL?
>>>>> Or something you would like in E/EFL?
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, please add your dreams, wishes, ideas, needs, or desires to the
>>>>> following page. Please review for duplicates before adding yours.
>>>>> Otherwise feel free to modify and contribute to the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/efl_apps_todo/
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your participation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Making E Great Again! ( pun intended! )
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After a text editor (I know your working on one)
>>>>
>>>> The other two we really miss on openSUSE are:
>>>>  * kdesu / gnomesu
>>>
>>> that's already inlcuded in enlightenment. just use sudo. behold the gui
>>> password entry. e sets SUDO_ASKPASS.
>>
>> In other words its already included if you make a major behavior change
>> that's against the policy of some distro's
> 
> it works fine with sudo and already works and is simple... if your distro 
> policy
> wants to make life hard by creating more work.... then i kind of lean to
> "distro's job to fix it" :) add a password fetcher to su - patch it so it 
> works
> like sudo... far better and simpler than writing a whole new su replacement.
> 

Well yeah its not a reimplementation of su, its just a simple app that
calls it with the right arguments in a secure fashion. Won't be hard for
me or someone to do, its just finding the time to get it done. esudo has
changed and maybe able to be modified to do this right.

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