gksudo potentially very insecure

Wouter Stomp wouterstomp at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 17:16:55 CDT 2005


> Wouldn't it be better to give another color to the window title bar
> and/or border of programs that are running with root privileges?
>
> --
> JanC

Don't think so:

- Probably hard to do with all the different themes out there.
- Not obvious what it means if you don't know, at least an icon could
give information when the mouse is over it or when it is clicked

But I still think it needs a dialog making it really clear what you are doing.

Wouter



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