Local users get to play root?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Wed Nov 18 20:24:30 UTC 2009


Am 2009-11-18 21:02, schrieb Peter Jones:
> On 11/18/2009 01:52 PM, nodata wrote:
>> Am 2009-11-18 19:50, schrieb Tony Nelson:
>>> On 09-11-18 13:44:43, nodata wrote:
>>>> Am 2009-11-18 19:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +0000,
>>>>>      Bastien Nocera<bnocera at redhat.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd
>>>>>> probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the
>>>>>> option, or all users but with the need to authenticate as an
>>>>>> admin.
>>>>>
>>>>> This seems pretty reasonable.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like the way Fedora is going with this: digging out something
>>>> that works and saying "we'll replace it later" makes no sense. Make
>>>> it work now, or *keep it in*.
>>>
>>> Fedora has always been this way.  Have you tried to use sound or video
>>> in the past few releases?  I think it's called "creative destruction".
>>
>> and ripping out the boot log for several releases... that was the
>> opposite of helpful.
>
> Please do try and stay on topic.  This is an entirely unrelated problem which
> has been resolved.

It's related because it's the same problem.

In both cases functionality was missing before a suitable replacement 
was available.




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