gksudo potentially very insecure

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:16:18AM +0200, ?ivind Hoel wrote:

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> IMO, a "key" icon in the notification area is all it takes - with the
> mandatory option of timing out NOW. I don't want an annoying box
> popping up asking for my password every time I want to feel powerful
> (why do we all have our popup blockers on in our browsers, again?). I
> just want to be able to tell that my last superuser-instance is still
> active in a non-obtrusive way.

Fedora has this, perhaps its worth looking into?

I think it's a good idea.

Trent

> Ofcourse, a popup (with prefilled password) during the timeout period
> could potentially stop malicious scripts from doing any unintended
> damage, but personally, I see this as a huge annoyance. At least have
> an option in the new notification area application to enable/disable
> this if you guys deem it necessary, please.
> 
> Using a different colour for the popup title is probably not supported
> by metacity/gtk, right?
> 
> On 7/6/05, Wouter Stomp <wouterstomp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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