tacone [2008-11-19 13:56 +0100]: > What I've been told is the gedit implementation was *not hard to do*.
That sounds overly optimistic to me. In order to teach gedit to edit system files as normal user, you need a PolicyKit protected backend which runs as root (probably D-BUS activated). This means you essentially have to implement a backdoor for circumventing arbitrary file permissions, and just protect them with a single PK privilege which many users might even permanently set. There goes the remaining bit of user/admin separation which we have, and we can just as well have anyone work as root in the first place. I read several such requests already, and I still don't think it's a good idea at all. What we should fix are the *reasons* why users want to edit files as root, instead of making crackful things easier. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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