On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:27:40PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Like I said, this is a tangent, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to > > work on this. But it'd be cool if they did. > Just as everybody else is struggling to get away from pam's awful > apis...I don't think this would be a step forward; but sure, it might be > doable. The awful API is actually an argument _for_ doing such a thing: it gets encapsulated away in only one place that needs to be maintained, and everyone can just write to PolicyKit. Annd speaking of tangents and horrible interfaces, I should add that one thing I'm very genuinely happy to learn in all of this is that the pkla config files are key=value rather than the old PolicyKit.conf xml file. So much nicer for humans to work with! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs / Instructional & Research Computing Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- Fedora-security-list mailing list Fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list
