On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:51:03PM +0100, lee wrote: > what is auditd for? The manpage doesn't tell me, and I can't find any > documentation about it telling me what the purpose is. Is there > anything that speaks against disabling it? This records secure log messages from the kernel, including SELinux alerts. You don't technically _need_ it, but these are important messages. > Similar with mcelog: What do I need that for? And benefits from it? I > can probably just disable it. This handles hardware errors. In addition to logging, the daemon can (and is configured to) take some corrective and preventative actions. You basically want this. > Do I need polkitd? It doesn't make sense to me; if I want to do > something for which more permissions are required, I do it as root. So > what's the benefit I would have from polkitd? Polkit allows applications to use root permissions for fine-grained actions rather than running as root all the time. That increases security. For example, a timezone applet can show you the time as a regular user and only require extra authentication to change it. However, if you don't want or need this functionality, applications are supposed to gracefully fall back to requiring root. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
