[PATCH] kdesu for FreeBSD non-wheel users

[Dawit A.]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> On Wed November 12 2003 16:10, 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).
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> Yes, I agree.
>
> Btw, the comment in su.cpp says:
> 	// Match "Password: " with the regex ^[^:]+:[\w]*$.
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> I actually fail to see how
> 	"su: you are not allowed to su root"
> would match that.

Why would it not ? ? To me the regexp says match anything that starts with one 
or more characters other than a colon, followed by a colon, followed by zero 
or more words (letter, number or _) and ending with any character including a 
\n, no ?

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Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"