[Portland] RE: alternative to X-KDE-SubstituteUID for non KDE desktops

[Karol Pietrzak]

On Monday 24 April 2006 10:30, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> After some investigation, i found this thread "Mini-proposal for
> Elevated User Privileges in menu-spec":
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-May/006893.html
>
> I asked on the list how to avoid gksu dependency for a KDE apps :
> * if i need to provide a specific desktop file for each desktops ?
> * Is there a common way to elevate user privilege ?

I have no idea but this might be helpful to everyone:

http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/2006/04/15/how-to-gain-then-drop-privs/

-- 
Karl Pietrzak
kap4020 at rit.edu
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