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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: clock and date
From:       "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date:       1998-09-30 17:43:57
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Maybe have all these use ksu or ksudo, but in addition they should only be
visible to members of adminning groups (Groups=staff,wheel   in .kdelnk).
This way, the only people who see it are the people who are likely to know
the password that these apps prompt for on startup.


Regards,
Yannai.

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Yannai A. Gonczarowski    System Administrator    yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il
The Hebrew University High School    http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/

Si vis pacem, para bellum
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Bo Thorsen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, we need to handle root only tools! kdmconfig is such a tool too, so
> > > > it should go to kdeadmin too, but kdebase is a good place in general for
> > > > both. But I want a solution for this problem before kcmclock goes anywhere.
> > > > Perhaps it's just me, but I don't want something in the user's K-menu, that
> > > > they can't execute. What do you think?
> > >
> > > Users=root,operator,foo,bar
> > >
> > > in .kdelnk? :)
> >
> > Well, that would be the most general solution I guess, but also the
> > slowest I'm afraid. But a good start into a discussion.
> >
> > Greetings, Stephan
> 
> I fully agree with you Stephan, root progs shouldn't be visible for the
> user, but there is a problem: Don't people usually tend to say that
> running X as root is A Bad Idea (an ABI :)? If so, how can a kdelnk in the
> K tree marked as root-only ever be shown?
> 
> --
> 
> Bo Thorsen
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> DK-5000 Odense C
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> gobo@imada.ou.dk

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