[PATCH] kdesu for FreeBSD non-wheel users

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Wed Nov 12 15:40:06 GMT 2003


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> i think that's wrong. potentially every system can have a wheel group,
> particularily those which use pam can be trivially configured to do so.
> instead, the prompt recognizion should be improved. i mean, a prompt is
> really not that hard to recognize: it ends with a colon (minus trailing
> whitespace), has no trailing newline, and the program hangs afterwards
> (i.e., does not exit or output something else).

What's wrong with matching "^Password:$"?  Are there systems this
does not work on?  What about "^.*word:$" (in case there is
something that lowercases the "p")?

Regards,
-- 
wca



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