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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: Kcontrol/Date
From:       Dima Rogozin <dima () mercury ! co ! il>
Date:       2000-03-29 4:25:26
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>> The password is required even before the module is displayed. This should
>> not be an issue.

>Dima,

>Could I suggest to do this otherwise?  I know in Windows, I personally
use
>the date/time settings dialog quite a bit, since if you double-click on
>the clock it will pop up.  It's a nice quick way to check dates.  This
>would be very inconvient if everytime I wanted to check the calendar I
had
>to enter a root password (assuming you also bind double-clicking on the
>clock to pop up the date settings, like in winXX).


On Unix/Linux you must be a root to change system date and/or time. You have
to provide root password unless you install kcontrol SUID root. This is how
Corel does this (they use KDE 1.1 and every module is a separate executable
there). They install kcmclock (and couple of other modules) set UID root.

I'm sure we do not want to SUID root the whole kcontrol. So we must use
kdesu to get there.

Any other options?

Dima.

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