On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:00:13PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > It seems better to me to make this rather small change to consolehelper > > rather than to make yet another tool from scratch. Maybe I'm missing > > something important, though -- that often happens. :) > The point is that "a tool to run things as root" is an awful design > choice. The thing it's trying to solve is "a way for users who have > administrative permissions to do administrative tasks". Right, I get that. David's original proposal involved a tool to switch users to a *non-root* user. Consolehelper currently can't do that, but I was suggesting making it able to do so rather than writing a whole new program. But that is apparently moot now. I'll try to keep up. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
