KPasswordEdit patch (was Re: new widgets...)

[David Faure]

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On Friday 27 September 2002 10:17, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday September 27, 2002 01:05, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > It is not more secure at all because the mlock()/munlock() calls
> > will fail if the processes is not running with root privileges.
> > Citing Waldo: Sorry, security is not optional :)
> 
> Well, it's free software.  Anyone who wants it optional is going to make it
> optional.  The only question is, are people going to be able to have
> flexible security models within KDE, or will they have to fork KDE to do
> so?

Oh come on. It makes no sense to include code that only works if you
run a KDE application as root - we've always discouraged doing so
(to the point that suidroot kde apps are forbidden by kapplication IIRC).

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