Where's Konqueror in SU
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Nov 2 16:41:37 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:01 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I don't think the people at Red Hat are entirely stupid, though I
> disagree with them on some matters and I think that preventing root from
> using GUIs is futile and misguided, especially as a good proportion of
> the software must be run with root privilege. Think, RH the
> configuration tools run with root privilege. That means all of GTK,
> python, perl and X,
That's exactly why we are heavily supporting the development and
integration of PolicyKit, which solves precisely that problem.
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Adam Williamson
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