Release Goals Breezy : GraphicalConfigTools

Diego González dggonz at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 10:51:13 CDT 2005


On 6/14/05, Danilo Šegan <danilo at kvota.net> wrote:
> Yesterday at 19:36, Diego González wrote:
> 
> > Other options is to write a small program that is used in the same way
> > as passwd but with and standarized interface, the problem with this is
> > that no one wants another setuid binary with write access to the
> > passwd information.
> 
> That small program might actually be a frontend to different "passwd"
> implementations, so it wouldn't need to be suid (and could be written
> in some language more suitable for text-parsing such as Python or
> Perl, just like system-tools-backends are written in Perl).
> 
Yes, this is an option

> Cheers,
> Danilo
>


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