SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 10:09:51 UTC 2008


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 08:26 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>
>>>> And I bet that more will choose ubuntu as a "friendlier" desktop if
>>>> fedora forces people to use SELinux.
>>> Except noone is talking about forcing anyone to use selinux, just about 
>>> not 'suggesting' that they don't use it... which is exactly what turning 
>>> it off at install would be doing.
>>>
>> Sorry but you are forcing it if is enabled by default on install.
>> How much users (not counting devels, admins and testers) of fedora know 
>> about SELinux and what it is? And what do people do when they install 
>> something - they probably leave all settings on default in hope that 
>> they don't "break" something with their wrong choices.
> 
> I would like to propose that the CD Desktop spin also always run as
> root.
> Users do not know how to correctly use file  permissions (or even know
> what they are) and they often are annoyed that they cannot simply remove
> useless directories like /usr that serve no apparent purpose but occupy
> a lot of space.
> 
> Ah, also, can we run Fedora on a FAT file system by default, it's a much
> easier file system to deal with and works on Cameras too and it is not
> case sensitive, which is really helpful, case sensitivity is sooo
> annoying ...
> 
> And also those annoying pop-ups asking for the root of a password when
> you want to change some configuration? What in the earth is the root of
> a password? I'd say login as root with no password is the best for
> usability,
> 
> please consider it!
> 
> </SCNR>
> 

Where is your bugzilla RFE? Don't say you didn't post it to bugzilla :)

I believe that all your most of your concerns can be dealth through 
policykit so please put RFE to correct package.




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