Local users get to play root?

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure enough sysadmins understand PolicyKit enough to
> confidently generate local policy edits.  I think learning how to
> implement site specific PolicyKit best practises by modifying unwanted
> PackageKit's behavior is going to be a trial by fire introduction to
> PolicyKit policy editting for a lot of admins. We saw the same sort of
> learning curve frustration when hal policy was introduced that changed
> how hardware was handled.

Having Yet Another access control system in HAL was precisely the
reason PolicyKit was created, so administrators can have one place to
find this stuff across the OS.