Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password dialog box). While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to work.
- Gilboa
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password dialog box). While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to work.
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is it %U?). I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different display colour for clarity :-)
Anne
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password dialog box). While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to work.
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is it %U?). I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different display colour for clarity :-)
I might have mis-represented my request: I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services. However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and I rather use a GUI front-end for that.
- Gilboa
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:22:20PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
I might have mis-represented my request: I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services. However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and I rather use a GUI front-end for that.
Which services? You may be able to use consolehelper (or even PolicyKit, for newer things).
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 09:45 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:22:20PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
I might have mis-represented my request: I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services. However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and I rather use a GUI front-end for that.
Which services? You may be able to use consolehelper (or even PolicyKit, for newer things).
E.g. boinc-client (among others)
- Gilboa
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Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password dialog box). While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to work.
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is it %U?). I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different display colour for clarity :-)
I have my user prompt in bright white and my root prompt in bright red.
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David
This touches on one of my gripes about Fedora (and RHE) -- the GUI authentication stuff is oriented towards su instead of sudo.
On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password dialog box). While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to work.
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is it %U?).
These su dialogues requires the user to know the root password.
If the user knows the root password, the user can log in as root. If the user picks up a keylogger and authenticates, whoever owned that keylogger now owns the machine. If you think carelessly, you might think that a running keylogger implies that the machine is already pwned, but you're ignoring the non-ideal behaviors of browser technology.
Also, there's the less tangible benefit, in that the correct use of sudo raises the general awareness that we shouldn't surf the web naked. (So to speak.)
-- Joel Rees