Make consolehelper more liske sudo?
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Mar 3 21:12:34 UTC 2005
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:02:57PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> One problem is that if you can run a GTK app as root (anything
> equivalent to setgid) then you can probably hack that app and do bad
> stuff, http://gtk.org/setuid.html
> So it's probably a requirement in all cases that we split out a backend
> that runs as root and have the UI separate.
Yes, sounds very sane.
Plus, as long as we're using SELinux, that could definitely help here.
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