PolicyKit - Authorizations - VNC - Add/Remove - Non-Root User
Albert Graham
agraham at g-b.net
Fri Jul 17 01:18:38 UTC 2009
F-IN-A
>
> /* RANT ON
>
> I can't help but think that all of this policy junk on a default
> install of the Linux Operating System is akin to microsoft's
> implementation of the standard unix operating philosophy of operating
> as a non-root user. If we want to tighten up our security, then we
> should have tools such as Policy Kit to do this, and I am assuming
> that this is PolicyKit that is preventing me from running this and not
> some other bug. But its ridiculous to try the linux community in the
> same fashion that Microsoft treats the average household user.
>
> END RANT */
> <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1208467>
>
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