On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 20.10.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
>>
>> On 20 October 2014 07:45, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org
>> <mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:21:54AM -0700, James Patterson wrote:
>> > I'd like consistent behavior please.
>>
>> When possible, that is ideal. But yum doesn't have a built-in
>> privilege
>> escalation mechanism to do this.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Only signed packages from system repositories can be installed.
>>
>>
>> So if I mistype 'rm' as rn or rb will lrzsz or rn be installed so that
>> it does the wrong thing next time? Or is this only some commands? And
>> beyond removing someone from the wheel group what is the way to turn
>> this off?
>
>
> uninstall anything in context of packagekit and just use yum
No you can configure polkit instead ... see man polkit.
The last couple times I tried to do anything like that, I ended up in
scary undocumented land.
There's polkit, the modern Javascript config (I think), the legacy
pkla compat thing, and the rules that the pkla compat thing reads. I
think that man polkit is describing the latter. And actually testing
a rule is a PITA.
This configuration may be powerful, but IMO it's far from user-friendly.
--Andy