Re: Admin programs and password
Re: Admin programs and password
- Subject: Re: Admin programs and password
- From: Charles Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:17:52 -0400
The dialog box comes from the system and you (the programmer) are informed
if the user is authorized to execute the command that you want.
I guess it would be easy enough to "fake" the dialog and get at the password
but I pity the developer that gets caught doing that. Even installing a lot of the
app's require root access and you end up trusting the developer then..
chuck
Andre John Mas wrote:
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Hi,
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I have noticed that a number of admin applications ask for a
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admin user/password before doing any work. Is the dialogue
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shown provided by the system or by the application, in other
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words does the application ask for the password, or does it
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delegate this task to the system who then provides a session
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authorization key?
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I ask this because I worrying about a potential security issues
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if it is indeed the application that handles the user/password.
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Andre
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