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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kdesu dialog simplification
From:       "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2003-12-20 0:56:59
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El vie, 19-12-2003 a las 09:30, Luciano Montanaro escribió:
> On Friday 19 December 2003 14:52, Simon Perreault wrote:
> > Michael Pye wrote:
> > > I can't believe people are actually discussing doing this. Am I to
> > > believe that all the participants in this thread so far (bar Waldo) are
> > > willing to hammer in their root password without being able to see what
> > > for?!
> >
> > Believe it or not, this is the majority.
> >
> > > I for one certainly would not.
> >
> > Would a "Details >>" button satisfy you? It would satisfy me.
> 
> If the issue is about security, I don't think this woud do.
> You want to see exactly the command executed.

I think the Details... button would suffice.  If you're concerned with
security, click it and be done with it.

The details button has several advantages:
* it hides complexity
* with a Details pane it suddenly becomes easier to provide more
information: calling process name or PID, credentials of calling
process, perhaps RPM package name of what's intalled, perhaps whether
the executable's MD5 sum hasn't changed and it's still valid, maybe
linked libraries, I don't know, anything that makes easier to audit
which action prompted the password dialog box.

See?

> 
> Luciano
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