how to get a real root/user seperation?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 10 12:33:12 UTC 2008


Dexter Filmore wrote:

> 
>>
>> I thought I answered that - yes, it'll fail.  He _can_, no doubt, create
>> a new "kdesudo" that will essentially just run "su" and ask for a root
>> password (easier, get an older copy of kdesu from debian, which actually
>> did that), but failing that lots of .desktop launchers are going to fail,
>> because they expect kdesudo.
> 
> That's essentially the info I was after. So: it's somehow possible but
> requires a tremendous amount of tinkering but it'll break some day anyway.

I think you've got it :-)  I'm not entirely sure I'm right, but pretty
confident.
-- 
derek





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