On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:17 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. > > And I don't use sudo either. > > Mind you, I have thought about it and I have come with the conclusion > that it is just not worth the trouble setting up sudo in a desktop > context. >
I tried to make it clear that there is nothing really to "set up". By running 'sudo guiapp', it should work okay. Paul mentions the '&' for backgrounding, and although that works as he said, it's not necessary. > I guess I'm just being bloody-minded and suggesting to Roberto that > there _cannot_ be anything "secure" -- and hopefully not "standard" > either .. about a script that makes it easier to indulge in practices > that are unsafe in the first place. > I try to take care before making general statements like that... but I believe it is probably more mainstream, and allows more privilege-limiting behavior than a simple script might do--analogous to using sudo over su. > :-) > > As Paul J. -- I think -- indicated in another post .. either the gui > app > has been designed (and tested .. audited .. etc.) to run in privileged > mode (and in this case it should take care of escalating your > privileges > when necessary and ask you for the root password if relevant) .. or it > has not. > > If it has NOT been designed to run privileged, then there is NO reason > that I can think of why you should EVER want to escalate your > privileges > -- except possibly when testing something .. such as when you need to > verify a hunch that a given application does not work correctly > because > you do not have proper access to a resource .. > I'm pretty sure that wireshark is about the only gui app that I run privileged, but sometimes it's not a matter of escalation--you might want to run as another non-privileged user for testing purposes--something for which you don't have privileges, but another non-privileged user does. For this, (in both gui and non-gui) sudo is very elegant and highly configurable. Casey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
