Simon McVittie writes ("Re: security policy / root passwords"):
> * splitting privileged actions into an unprivileged GUI and a
> privileged daemon, rather than running the GUI with privileges
> (supported and encouraged by PK, not well-supported by sudo or su)
This gives me another opportunity to plug userv. userv is a tool for
helping split a local program or service into differently-privileged
parts. Specifically it's a way of letting one user execute programs
to be run as another user, with appropriate security properties.
Ian.
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