From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 23 06:30:08 1999
From: iglio () fub ! it (Pietro Iglio)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:30:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdesu in KRASH
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93807710201718

At 20.00 22/09/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Hiya,
>
>I'd like to advocate for inclusion of kdesu in the KRASH release.
>
>KDE su features:
>
>    * graphical password dialog
>    * automatic X authentication
>    * (rather) secure password keeping
>
>It is currently tested on:
>
>    * Linux (w & w/o glibc 2.1, PAM, unix98 pty's)
>    * Solaris 7 (intel)
>  
>Different scenarios are possible:
>
>1) All the way.
>KDE su gets included in kdebase and all things requiring root priviliges
>(kdm setup, kfm su, kvt su, ...) are called through kdesu.
>
>2) Not all the way.
>KDE su in kdeuitls. It installs a new kfm su and kvt su .desktop entry.

I vote for (1). kdesu should be moved to kdebase ASAP.