On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> > 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).
To clarify things, this is a Red Hat'ism (forgive the wording) -- i.e. Red
Hat Linux 6.1 has wrapped some programs that need to be run as root
through consolehelper, regardless if they're console, KDE or GNOME
programs. It's just coincidence that the wrapper is a gtk/gnome program.
BTW: If something bugs you about GNOME, why don't you complain? I grepped
through my archives of gnome-list and gnome-devel-list and couldn't find a
single post by you. Even developers can't read minds.
Nils
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