Hi
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PolicyKit looks interesting based on the discussions Rahul included.
Correct me if I got it wrong, but would PolicyKit allow an administrator
to set people up so they can do certain things as administrators (like
mounting a disk) ? It looked like the user gets no challenge for
authorization if they are set up to be able to do that. I actually
think that is a problem. I think that when someone is executing with
root privileges, they should be aware of it and consider whether they
meant to do that. That is why I suggested a [SUDO]consolehelper. I am
assuming that Rahul was referring to that as being a bad model. I
agree that giving everyone this ability like UBUNTU does it is a
problem. However, I do not agree that setting policies for a user and
not reminding him/her what their action implies is any better.
Administrator can set policies for users to limit or allow tasks such as
mounting a disk. Administrator can set local policies to be as
restrictive or as lenient as they want.
Rahul