Re: Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again --- and without getting all religious about it
- From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:15:48 -0400
Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
Chanchao wrote:...
All the man says is that at this point he prefers not to have to save
this file somewhere where he can save it, exit the application, use
gksudo to open it again, re-apply the changes, save again.
access rights after entering the sudo password: great. Or if a script
is called that saves the file as a temp file, closes the application
and re-opens it again after authenticating as administrator: Just as
great.
That's all. No Unix-security-blasphemy takes place.
Nonsense. You're suggesting that every application be allowed to
determine who is and is not permitted to act as an administrator
independent of the OS. That's not blasphemy, it's castration. You're
asking that the entire Linux/Unix authentication mechanism be
undermined.
Don't be silly - applications _do_ do this, and as Chanchao says it isn't
Unix blasphemy. They _don't_ decide who can be an administrator - that's up
to the administrator, either by giving out root passwords or configuring
sudo. Kpackage, for instance, allows you to do all the user-accessible
things that apt-get can do, but if you want to actually do an install it
pops up a password prompt (unless you have it both configured to use SSH
and ssh is configured to allow passwordless root logins). It's possible
because programs _are_ permitted to execute other programs, and that
program can conceivably be sudo or a counterpart.
However, it isn't ever going to be something the system will do generically,
and the OPs best option is to make it a wishlist item for gedit.
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derek
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