sudo: always_set_home

[David Mandelberg]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> The only GNOME apps you'd want to run with elevated privileges would be
> administrative apps, and they very rarely rely on user settings (and are
> better off explicitly avoiding user settings), so I agree with this
> suggestion in theory
That's mostly what I was thinking, except that sudo can be used for lowering
privileges too. For example, I use sudo to change from david to david-chat
without a password so that I can run gaim in a restricted environment and
setting always_set_home changes where gaim would get/set preferences from/to. Of
course, if somebody knows how to that, they could probably figure out how to
set/unset always_set_home if they like/don't like it.

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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd at eth0.is-a-geek.org
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