On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Jehan Procaccia wrote: > I am using Fedora19 on hundred of stations for students, to my > surprise I noticed that anyone connected locally can update all > packages of the station ! > the thing is that when the user connect to the station, there's a > notifcation that pops-up saying that there are updates available > accepting to proceed leeds to an update of all the station packages ;-( > apparently cliking on the notification start gpk-update-viewer (seen > that with ps auwx) > if the student tries to issue a yum update on the cli, then he is > refused "You need to be root to perform this command." I thought the default behavior was to allow only members of the wheel group to do updates without additional authentication -- I'll double check. In any case, you can use PolicyKit configuration files to change the behavior to be appropriate to the situation. -- 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
