> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:36:17 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Render] Towards a unified font & type service ??
> -----
> Around 20 o'clock on Sep 6, Brian Stell wrote:
>
> > An app acquires a font (eg: automatic font download to the
> > browser) and wants to add it to the general font pool (which
> > often requires root level privilege for write). The font
> > catalogs may also need to be updated which again may require
> > root privilege.
>
> Well, the app better have some way of getting root access. I'm leary of
> writing any system that lets users install arbitrary files into a shared
> area where root might touch them. Font worms anyone?
>
Your lack of use of current desktops is showing, Keith: these systems
have been working on system management tools (e.g. Kups in KDE, and other
such KDE tools, Ximian set up tools), and they prompt the user for root
passwords at appropriate times.
I beleive the interface should exist: getting it implemented correctly
can/should be left to the desktop folks. Just presume that file protection
is active, in the usual forms, to enforce security appropriately.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
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