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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.0 Wishlist
From:       Josef Spillner <dr_maux () maux ! de>
Date:       2001-08-27 19:45:47
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On Monday 27 August 2001 21:17, Anthony Moulen wrote:
> If I am saying things that don't make sense as to where these permissions
> are, forgive me, I am currently running KDE 1.1.2 on an old Mandrake 6.1
> release (it came with the book), and won't be back on my system with KDE
> 2.2 until evening.

Hm, maybe one should collect ideas of where it makes use to define a user who 
has control over the whole system, as opposed to the multi-user approach. We 
had this topic on #kde recently (about setting the clock time without 
requiring kdesu), and personally I'd like to see a nice sandbox concept, 
which requires (on Linux at least) to execute apps under a different user id, 
with neither an empty password nor endless annoying dialogs. I've already 
prepared a kdialog based wizard for it, but a kde-global policy would be 
better.
The same goes for kcm's kernel configuration module, for example.
I don't have a problem with su --command="foo", but that's maybe not a user 
friendly way :-)

Josef

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