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Bug 126422 - System Monitor should use libgnomesu for root authentication
System Monitor should use libgnomesu for root authentication
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.9.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-07 08:40 UTC by Mark Finlay
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 2.10.0
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10

Attachments
Patch to implement this. (4.43 KB, patch)
2004-07-16 07:55 UTC, Hongli Lai 		none Details | Review
updated (11.73 KB, patch)
2004-11-26 10:32 UTC, Benoît Dejean 		committed Details | Review

Description Mark Finlay 2003-11-07 08:40:01 UTC 
Libgnomesu is a library in gnome cvs that has been written to be a secure
portable way to run programs as root. I would recommend using it for the
ssytem monitor for Gnome 2.6, as the current way of switching to root is
less than ideal.
Comment 1 Hongli Lai 2004-07-16 07:55:32 UTC 
Created attachment 29573 [details] [review]
Patch to implement this.

This simple patch implements libgnomesu support.
Comment 2 Hongli Lai 2004-07-16 07:56:16 UTC 
The patch is for gnome-system-monitor 2.6.0 since I'm not able to compile the
CVS version.
Comment 3 Kjartan Maraas 2004-10-18 14:25:11 UTC 
Has libgnomesu been proposed for inclusion in the platform?
Comment 4 Benoît Dejean 2004-10-21 07:52:28 UTC 
libgnomesu would solve some security problems as currently the password is not
blanked whenever it should be (we have to be paranoid).
Comment 6 Benoît Dejean 2004-11-13 10:48:30 UTC 
so what's going on with libgnomesu ? i've branched and 2.10 devel happens in
HEAD....
Comment 7 Benoît Dejean 2004-11-26 10:32:43 UTC 
Created attachment 34150 [details] [review]
updated
Comment 8 Benoît Dejean 2005-01-03 21:54:23 UTC 
so what's up here ?
Comment 9 Benoît Dejean 2005-01-08 22:43:55 UTC 
Commited. Wait&See.