GNOME panel and sudo

[Vincent Untz]

On Mon, July 18, 2005 9:05, Armin Ronacher said:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker schrieb:
>>
>> gdm runs as root, it could do sudo -l -u $USER and pass that information
>> to the session somehow.
>>
> Thats wrong. GDM has his own user, called "gdm"

That's true, but you're wrong :-)
IIRC, GDM is running a daemon as 'root' and a frontend as 'gdm'.

Vincent

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