disappointment over default acpid config

[Rahul Sundaram]

David Woodhouse wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 23:13 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>  
>
>>The policy is stored in g-p-m (gconf, per user) and HAL just does the
>>information processing (battery.time_remaining) and method heavy lifting
>>(Suspend, Hibernate, SetLCDBrightness, etc.).
>>
>>HAL doesn't enforce any policy at all. Without g-p-m running you won't
>>be able to "suspend after 15 minutes of inactivity" or any cleverness
>>like that.
>>
>>I'm not sure the "without X" argument is that important (flame retardant
>>suit ON..) as the typical laptop isn't booting for very long. If we load
>>a headless g-p-m when gdm loads, then we have 99.999% of the time
>>covered.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm slightly less concerned by the 'without X' case than I am by the
>'without user' case.
>
>I was bitten the other day by a NetworkManager regression in this
>respect. I'm used to just turning my laptop on and walking (or driving)
>away from it. Within a minute or two NetworkManager will make sure it's
>on the network.
>
>A few days ago I did this after upgrading NetworkManager, and the laptop
>remained inaccessible from the network. When I returned to it, I found
>that the GNOME keyring manager now insisted on asking me for a password
>before it would access the WEP key which is already stored in the
>_standard_ system-wide configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>
>You need to have a way to set system-wide policies, even if they're only
>a default and can be overridden by users in certain cases.
>
>  
>
You are probably talking about this bug in reference to the keyring issue.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172555

There isnt any enhancements filed for a feature to override system policies.

regards
Rahul