From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Owen Taylor Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 17:43:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Dr Andrew C Aitchison writes: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Jim Gettys wrote: > > > OK, folks (both X and wm-spec-list folks, that is, that I've added to > > this thread): > > > > How do we want to solve this problem? > > > > We need a secure, interoperable way for configuration scripts running > > as root to pop up configuration GUI's on user's servers, and we need it soon > > (yesterday), as hot-plug is now a reality on Linux systems.... > > Are you sure you want to do this ? > Are you *absolutely* sure you want to enable this in the default installation ? > > If the root script cannot open a popup on the display, maybe it is because > the display is currently being used by someone who shouldn't have access > to the popup. > If I have a stand-alone machine, sure I want a popup when I install a new > printer/camera/player/reader in the USB/Firewire/PCMCIA socket. > However, if this is a classroom machine I might not wish to allow any user > to just plug in their device and use it. If the root script pops up a > config on their window they have just acquired more priviledges than I > wish to give them. There's no reason at all that the configuration GUI has to automatically have root privileges; I would tend to expect something along the lines of: A new device "USB Magic Camera" has been detected. Please enter the root password to configure this device: .............. [ Cancel ] [ OK ] Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel