From kde-core-devel  Thu Mar 06 13:19:40 2003
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:19:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: super user mode filemanager
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104695694715034

On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:10, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> hiya all,
> 
> just noticed in the kmenu that you can 
> open a root started filemanager. not
> only is this slow due to the need to 
> start up a thousand and one things as 
> root, but also, its imo a really ugly 
> way of doing it.
> 
> so, 
> how about a fish:/root@localhost instead?
> 
> requires a pretty good security check of
> fish though at a guess.

Hmm, I've never liked the idea of [fish/ssh]ing to localhost; doesn't that 
feel hackish to anyone else?

Would it be possible to create a lighter su:/ IO slave for this purpose?  
(Even if this was really just fish behind the scenes this would look nicer.)

-Scott

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