Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:47:36PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote:

> Again, sudo is super. 

Surely it's not. Super is a sudo replacement.
http://packages.debian.org/super

> I even considered a using it on some windows machine
> which unfortunately lack this feature. It's the Ubuntu GUI for leveraging
> permisions which bothers me.
> I took a quick look of the *Kit stuff. I don't see immediately what
> ConsoleKit is doing, but indeed disabling any possibility to sudo through
> the GUI, and only running a package daemon is a nice step towards a better
> authentication scheme.
> However I don't see how is it a solution for the general problem of
> executing untrusted binaries in Desktop environment.

It's not. Nither is sudo. It's intended to help you solve the problem of
a giving a semi-trusted user partial sysadmin permissions. Different
problem.

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