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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: patch: kdesu "--comment" override
From:       sheep <sheepzilla () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-05-29 13:22:00
Message-ID: 23ee22080705290622r7c612962n7468c676de4fddd3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 5/29/07, Ryan Zeigler <zeiglerr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> This is my first post to the list, but I was just messing around in kdebase
> and I felt that this might be useful for kdesu. It adds a comment argument to
> the kdesu program that can override what is displayed in the dialog box. I
> hope this is useful. Sincerely,
> Ryan Zeigler
>
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It seems to me that this is not a good idea - a program could pretend
to be something different when it makes a kdesu request, and trick the
user into giving su privileges to something that should not have them.

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sheep
 
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