Hello,
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In FESCo ticket #1115, it was decided to modify the privilege
escalation
policy in order to allow local, active, admin user to update/remove/etc
signed software without requiring a password.
<snip>
In FESCo ticket #1117, it was decided to extend this policy to
potentially cover other privileged operations. At this point, "we" are
looking for more use cases. Lot of such use cases are already listed on
the following page,
The question FESCo was considering is not "which password prompts are
annoying", but "what system-wide policy does something useful"? For
example, the "Scope" part of
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy is a
general policy (providing a specific security-relevant promise), and
the rest of the page is just a specific implementation. Similarly,
see
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1117#comment:2 attempts to
approach the problem from a similar angle.
Starting with annoying use cases an using them to find how the general
policy needs to change does make a lot of sense, or course; I just
wanted to make sure that the subject of the email does not mislead us
into just killing passwords left and right.
Mirek