None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Les Mikesell]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Then you, the *administrator* of that machine (because, truly, that's
>> your role) can configure it to do so. It doesn't mean it should do so
>> out of the box.
> 
> That said, I do wish Fedora made it easier to do the remote admin for
> family/friends type thing.  I'm not really thinking of setting up mail
> servers, but more putting together something like Copilot
> (https://www.copilot.com/) from the tools we have (Vino, ssh,
> Telepathy).  But that's another discussion...

I think policykit introduces some really ugly issues issues here - or at 
least if it works the same as in ubuntu in terms of giving unwarranted 
privileges to console sessions and requiring a console session to use 
the GUI admin tools if you don't log in as root.  You could use VNC or 
NX/freenx session shadowing with an already logged in console user 
session, but that's not exactly right for administration since it might 
really be an unprivileged user sitting there.

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   Les Mikesell
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