This touches on one of my gripes about Fedora (and RHE) -- the GUI
authentication stuff is oriented towards su instead of sudo.
On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
dialog box).
While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
work.
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u
(or is
it %U?).
These su dialogues requires the user to know the root password.
If the user knows the root password, the user can log in as root. If
the user picks up a keylogger and authenticates, whoever owned that
keylogger now owns the machine. If you think carelessly, you might
think that a running keylogger implies that the machine is already
pwned, but you're ignoring the non-ideal behaviors of browser
technology.
Also, there's the less tangible benefit, in that the correct use of
sudo raises the general awareness that we shouldn't surf the web
naked. (So to speak.)
--
Joel Rees
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