On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:06 pm, Christopher Martin wrote: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:15, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > Package: kwifimanager > > Version: 4:3.5.1-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > kwifimanager should be called using kdesu and need to depends on > > wireless-tools instead of libiw28 because it uses and parses iwlist. > > The dependency we can add, but I'm not sure I like making users run > kwifimanager as root. It can be used as a network monitor without root > privileges, and to configure a user's wireless networks it will ask for > a root password when needed. > > The only problem I see at the moment is that it can't find iwlist, > since /sbin isn't in the normal user's path. But "iwlist $INTERFACE > scanning" will return information to non-root users. So perhaps a > better patch would be to make kwifimanager search in /usr/sbin > and /sbin, if it can't find iwlist in the regular path. > > I can't test kwifimanager too much without a connection, though. Let me > know what you think. > > Cheers, > Christopher Martin
I'd say running as root is wrong as well. Though I do like the idea of searching /usr/bin and /sbin. For the average user, this would be a big improvement imho. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
