[olug] restricted term

[Will Langford]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Christopher White <slaeyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> How about something like gnome do?  It's a fairly neat little tool
> that can open just about any app, file, location, etc. you might want!
>
> Just a thought,
> Chris from Kearney
>

Hm, actually.. yeah...
If your terminal executable is owned by root and permission is 744 or
something.... you would have to have escalated privileges to run...  which
the desktop 'give super user pass' tool stuff would be perfect for.

Dunno if 'root' would be a correct user to run it as.... security related
stuffs... but... it's... a step forward.

If it's owned by a user that's considered an administrator (ie: 'admin'),
and the gnome password util can be setup to run the executable as a
particular user rather than just root (command line equiv: sudo -u admin
/path/to/xterm).... then.... that'd make more sense.  Followed by sudo'ing
whatever you need to do in order to do root stuff, keeping with the 'sudo vs
root shell' security view.

I tend to be a console dweller rather than an X inhabitant... so... I'm not
very familiar with WM tools :) ... although it didn't take much effort to
get used to 'sudo command' with mythbuntu.

Out of curiosity, is the OP also disabling any 'run command' dialogs ?  Is
he combing programs that are regularly accessible to make sure there's no
way to run commands ? etc ?

-Will