On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 06:02 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 23:34 -0700, James Patterson wrote:
> > I am in the wheel group, and if I type:
> >
> > nethogs
> >
> > then I can install nethogs without any additional authorization. This is
> > on a freshly booted machine where sudo has not been run.
> >
> > Should this be marked as a blocker?
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153005
> >
>
> This was approved by FESCo last year. As you noticed, you're in wheel,
> which lets you do lots of privileged things without typing any password
> (and many other things with your own password instead of the root
> password). If you don't want this behavior, you can just remove yourself
> from wheel.
I'd like consistent behavior please.
Typing yum install requires a password, so should be the behaviour for
running a command that doesn't exist causing a package to be installed.
yum is a lower-level package managing tool/API.
If you want something that works with PolicyKit to authorize the signed
package installation for members of wheel group, use PackageKit:
pkcon install xteddy
Lubo