Terminals

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 22:25:06 EDT 2008


Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe
the console is enough?

-walter

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity
> is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of
> root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the
> Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal
> activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security issue?
>
> Michael
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