On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:47:36PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > Again, sudo is super.
Surely it's not. Super is a sudo replacement. http://packages.debian.org/super > I even considered a using it on some windows machine > which unfortunately lack this feature. It's the Ubuntu GUI for leveraging > permisions which bothers me. > I took a quick look of the *Kit stuff. I don't see immediately what > ConsoleKit is doing, but indeed disabling any possibility to sudo through > the GUI, and only running a package daemon is a nice step towards a better > authentication scheme. > However I don't see how is it a solution for the general problem of > executing untrusted binaries in Desktop environment. It's not. Nither is sudo. It's intended to help you solve the problem of a giving a semi-trusted user partial sysadmin permissions. Different problem. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
