Execute as Root GUI Admin Interfaces
Rahul
sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Aug 10 19:55:12 UTC 2006
Hi
>>
> PolicyKit looks interesting based on the discussions Rahul included.
> Correct me if I got it wrong, but would PolicyKit allow an administrator
> to set people up so they can do certain things as administrators (like
> mounting a disk) ? It looked like the user gets no challenge for
> authorization if they are set up to be able to do that. I actually
> think that is a problem. I think that when someone is executing with
> root privileges, they should be aware of it and consider whether they
> meant to do that. That is why I suggested a [SUDO]consolehelper. I am
> assuming that Rahul was referring to that as being a bad model. I
> agree that giving everyone this ability like UBUNTU does it is a
> problem. However, I do not agree that setting policies for a user and
> not reminding him/her what their action implies is any better.
Administrator can set policies for users to limit or allow tasks such as
mounting a disk. Administrator can set local policies to be as
restrictive or as lenient as they want.
Rahul
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