Make consolehelper more liske sudo?

[Eric Warnke]

Thanks everyone, the UGROUPS worked, not the way I would like, but it
worked.  Is there any more documentation for these config files?

I would suggest that the lack of ANY decent installed documentation (
man pages /usr/share/doc/ ) on either consolehelper or usermode be
consitered a bug.

Cheers,
Eric

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>As David says, sometimes this is sort of complicated. e.g. for
>NetworkManager we changed the architecture to be asking for certain
>things from the user session, vs. writing out an arbitrary config file.
>
>He's also right that some of the system-config-* aren't desktop oriented
>at all (or they at least include a bunch of non-desktop stuff in
>addition)
>
>So the fix may not be as simple as changing the pam setup, but it's
>still broken right now.
>
>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.
>
>Havoc
>
>
>  
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