Proposing to host system-auth-agent in fdo

Hongli Lai h.lai at chello.nl
Thu Oct 14 10:30:53 EEST 2004


Pat Suwalski wrote:
> You have not shown in any of these examples why sudo is not a good 
> solution. I can (and do) do all of these things with sudo.
> 
> "of course this user can do this!" is *exactly* what sudo is designed for.

Sudo cannot be easily wrapped into a graphical user interface. Is that 
not enough reason to use a replacement, or improve sudo?
And in case of improving sudo, it's not guaranteed that your patches 
will get accepted. So that results into forking at worst. Etc....



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