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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: please comment: kdm control module
From:       Sven Niedner <niedner () physik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       2001-04-05 10:44:41
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Am Montag 02 April 2001 20:03 schrieb Rik Hemsley:
> AFAIK the kdesu dialog should be shown only once, because the password
> is cached for a while. Perhaps not... you might want to ask on
> core-devel about that point. I would hope someone will answer that :)

I am not so shure if this is a good idea -- typing in the root password is 
always an alarm sign: "Now you act as an administrator, and what you are 
doing might possibly affect other users.", and it should make people think 
twice about what they are doing.

Sven.

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