> I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an
> alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the
> root password.
>
> This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this
> and get the password. It may be designed to make things easier for
> new users, but they need to understand about su/logging in as root.
>
> I have come across it on kppp (amazingly, even if you make it suid root!)
> which does not need to run as root (eg as in 6.0) and gnorpm (which means
> you get this just by inserting a RH CD in gnome).
I've been seeing this when I login and the dialogue box doesn't even
indicate what's asking!!
Coupled with a few other things, it's almost enough to make me remove
gnome (I I tend to use kde more anyway).
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