Security policy oversight needed?

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Nov 19 20:28:47 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 09:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Again, you are also making the assumption that "desktop distro" ==
> "single-user system", when the Fedora desktop work is going in the other
> direction (making the desktop more multi-user friendly).  Many home
> systems are now multi-user, and not everybody should be installing
> software.

+1 agreed

A huge number of comments here, in the bugzilla, and elsewhere point to 
"desktop spin == no root password" logic being quite unpopular.

It needs to be an /option/ in the desktop spin, an option defaulted to 
OFF (== prompt for root pw).

	Jeff





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