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Gilboa Davara | 20 Aug 13:03

sudo GUI frontend

Hello all,

Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
dialog box).
While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.

I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
work.

- Gilboa

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Anne Wilson | 20 Aug 13:21

Re: sudo GUI frontend

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
> dialog box).
> While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
>
> I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
> work.
>
'/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is 
it %U?).  I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different 
display colour for clarity :-)

Anne


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Gilboa Davara | 20 Aug 14:22

Re: sudo GUI frontend

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
> > dialog box).
> > While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
> >
> > I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
> > work.
> >
> '/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is 
> it %U?).  I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different 
> display colour for clarity :-)

I might have mis-represented my request:
I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services.
However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and
I rather use a GUI front-end for that.

- Gilboa

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Matthew Miller | 20 Aug 15:45
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Re: sudo GUI frontend

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:22:20PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> I might have mis-represented my request:
> I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services.
> However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and
> I rather use a GUI front-end for that.

Which services? You may be able to use consolehelper (or even PolicyKit, for
newer things).

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Gilboa Davara | 20 Aug 16:30

Re: sudo GUI frontend

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 09:45 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:22:20PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > I might have mis-represented my request:
> > I'm using sudo to give users selective rights over certain services.
> > However, sudo requires a user password, once in while (good thing) - and
> > I rather use a GUI front-end for that.
> 
> Which services? You may be able to use consolehelper (or even PolicyKit, for
> newer things).
> 

E.g. boinc-client (among others)

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David | 21 Aug 01:13

Re: sudo GUI frontend


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
>> dialog box).
>> While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
>>
>> I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
>> work.
>>
> '/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u (or is 
> it %U?).  I like a root konsole profile, so I used it there, with a different 
> display colour for clarity :-)

I have my user prompt in bright white and my root prompt in bright red.

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Joel Rees | 22 Aug 01:38

Re: sudo GUI frontend

This touches on one of my gripes about Fedora (and RHE) -- the GUI  
authentication stuff is oriented towards su instead of sudo.

On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:05:34 Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Can anyone please point me to a good sudo GUI front-end? (Password
>> dialog box).
>> While I'm using KDE 4.1, I don't mind using a gtk box.
>>
>> I tried using kdesu with or w/o the kdesurc - but it doesn't seem to
>> work.
>>
> '/bin/su -' does work, though in some cases you will need to add $u  
> (or is
> it %U?).

These su dialogues requires the user to know the root password.

If the user knows the root password, the user can log in as root. If  
the user picks up a keylogger and authenticates, whoever owned that  
keylogger now owns the machine. If you think carelessly, you might  
think that a running keylogger implies that the machine is already  
pwned, but you're ignoring the non-ideal behaviors of browser  
technology.

Also, there's the less tangible benefit, in that the correct use of  
sudo raises the general awareness that we shouldn't surf the web
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