ktsuss 1.2 released

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Thu Sep 13 00:09:16 CEST 2007


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On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:35:42PM -0300, David B. Cortarello wrote:
> Yes, I know, I'll fix it when I get home, I tried a shorcut with
> setreuid and setregid, but didn't work as I expected, fixing it is
> just modify two lines adding setuid and setgid. :-)
> 
> On 9/12/07, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch> wrote:
> > Hi David
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the new release. However, it again has the problem that:
> >
> > ktsuss id
> >
> > and provide the credentials "timtas/password", the output is:
> >
> > uid=0(root) gid=1000(timtas) groups=4(adm),..,119(fuse),1000(timtas)
> >
> >
> > Bye
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > David B. Cortarello wrote:
> > > Guys, try this new "snapshot":
> > > http://dcortarello.googlepages.com/ktsuss-1.3.tar.gz
> > >
> > > It has a several things fixed. And implemented -u param, so:
> > > root at Aquiles:~# ktsuss -u root Thunar
> > > Wouldn't ask for password and will just launch the application as he
> > > is already root (same happens with any user).
> > >
> > > Thanks to all who sent feedback and patches.
> > >
> > > On 9/11/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:47:47 -0300, "David B. Cortarello"
> > >> <nomius at users.berlios.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I spoke here once about ktsuss (a graphical version of su) as an
> > >>> alternative to gksu.
> > >>> Today I just released version 1.2. If anyone wants to download it,
> > >>> this is the place to do it:
> > >> Great work.
> > >> Anyway, while compiling I noticed a couple of compiler warnings, so I
> > >> took a look at the code and fixed the warnings as well as some other
> > >> things. Please find the attached patch.
> > >>
> > >> Changes:
> > >> - added missing header files to avoid compiler warnings
> > >> - removed unused variables
> > >> - don't use deprecated gtk_exit, use (g)libc's exit() instead
> > >> - rewrote error message code a bit
> > >>
> > >> Code like
> > >> gtk_exit(2+0*fprintf(stderr, "Command not found\n"));
> > >> is just ugly, isn't it? When reading such code, I understand why people
> > >> are always saying C is an awful language. I rewrote the code for better
> > >> readability.
> > >>
> > >> Btw, did you though about using gettext for i18n?
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Enrico
> > >>
> > >> --
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