GNOME panel and sudo

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2005-07-18 at 11:17 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 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'.

Indeed:
dennis at mirage ~ $ ps aux | grep gdm
root      7976  0.0  0.4   8812  2308 ?        Ss   Jul17
0:00 /usr/bin/gdm

root      7986  0.0  0.5   9140  2756 ?        S    Jul17
0:00 /usr/bin/gdm

root      8021  1.3  7.3  41648 37844 ?        SL   Jul17
20:54 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
-nolisten tcp vt7

dennis   11396  0.0  0.1   2888   736 pts/2    S+   12:06   0:00 grep
gdm

-- 
Dennis K.
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