On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:11:18PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Chris Adams
<cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> It seems the latest way of doing this is via PolicyKit. IMHO all
> PolicyKit configuration should be "secure by default",
"secure" is an meaningless term without reference to a deployment
model and threat model,
Chris gave you such a model:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
Fedora has made a big push into the multi-user desktop (which many
home
computers are now) with things like fast user switching. In many such
setups, not all users are considered "administrators" of the system
(think parents and kids for example). However, Fedora continues to slip
in (with no announcement and no documentation on how to change) things
that allow the console user to be an administrator without any
additional authentication.
Rich.
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