Re: Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again --- and without getting all religious about it

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
Chanchao wrote:


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.

Aha! Here's where my misunderstanding (and agreement with the OP of
this thread) came from. I assumed that it was the OS that determined
who could act as an administrator and could temporarily elevate the
privileges of the program, rather than the program being required to
elevate itself.

Ah, well. You live and learn... I've only been using Linux for a
couple of years.

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