Re: unprivileged users can update the system !

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On 08/27/2013 01:14 PM, 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."
> 
> we need to maintain an homogenous state of update on all station,
> how can I prevent users from update stations themself ? Thanks.
> 

The policy should be that only members of the "wheel" group should be
able to do that. Please file a bug in Bugzilla if you see otherwise
(file it against PackageKit).
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