Release Goals Breezy : GraphicalConfigTools

Danilo Šegan danilo at kvota.net
Tue Jun 14 04:39:18 CDT 2005


Yesterday at 19:36, Diego González wrote:

> Other options is to write a small program that is used in the same way
> as passwd but with and standarized interface, the problem with this is
> that no one wants another setuid binary with write access to the
> passwd information.

That small program might actually be a frontend to different "passwd"
implementations, so it wouldn't need to be suid (and could be written
in some language more suitable for text-parsing such as Python or
Perl, just like system-tools-backends are written in Perl). 

Cheers,
Danilo



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