"Stateless Linux" project

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Sep 14 19:41:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:42:35PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Red Hat engineering is starting a new project we're calling
> "stateless Linux" for lack of a better name - some components of this
> are already in Rawhide, and others will be appearing shortly.
[snip]
>  - an overview document, available from
>    http://people.redhat.com/~hp/stateless/

I think my small patch to usermode to allow group-based auth-as-self (i.e.
admin users don't need root password, but still need to reenter their own)
fits nicely with some of the goals expressed. (Makes sense for
systrem-config-date, for example.) So I'll take this moment to plug it
again. :)

Please see: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86188>


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