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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re:  Small idea: programs useful when not logged in
From:       "Roberto H. Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-02-22 0:58:47
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On Fri, Feb 21 2003 at 04:28:50pm -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Roberto H. Alsina wrote:
> >Perhaps we disagree on what it means to be logged in.
> >I think to be logged in, one has to log in. Having root start a
> >process under another user ID is not logging in as that user.
> 
> No, I agree with your.  Having root run as an alias is not being logged in 
> as that user.
> 
> I explicitly note what was implicit in previous postings: any method that 
> would allow the user to gain root access is not an acceptable solution -- 
> serious security problem.
> 
> Also, I note that when you start kde as root running under an alias that: 
> "whoami" in a Konsole works correctly and reports the user ID, but KDE 
> appears to think that you are running as root. I don't know if this would 
>  be a problem or not.

Remember to use su -

> It appears that if might be possible to have KDM run an application 
> directly as an alias under root, but there would be serious security issues 
> to resolve first.  However, my assumption was that running it under root 
> would not be an acceptable solution.

Of course.

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