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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 78935] requires root privilege on non-linux systems so use
From:       Marc Glisse <glisse () clipper ! ens ! fr>
Date:       2004-09-29 10:23:24
Message-ID: 20040929102324.31965.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From glisse clipper ens fr  2004-09-29 12:23 -------
There is actually a problem with this idea, which I had not thought of at first. \
Using SuProcess is easy and works fine, except that in some configurations (pam_self \
enabled for su) su does not ask for a password when you try to su yourself... Since \
the main concern here is to avoid using root privilege, changing su's configuration \
is not an option. I tried using SshProcess instead, but then you need to pass several \
options to ssh to make sure it only uses password authentication, and anyway \
kdesu_stub chokes on the messages ssh produces, the result being that checkInstall \
always returns 0. By the way I was surprised to see that su's path is hardcoded in \
libkdesu and ssh's is not.


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