man, 21.03.2005 kl. 16.29 skrev Mike Hearn: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:01:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Software installation *definitely* needs some sort of authentication and > > special privilege. Sure, this needs to be made so it's not intimidating, but > > we also shouldn't shoot ourselves in the head. > > You're thinking like an admin - yes for managed networks users probably > should not be able to install whatever they like but bear in mind anybody > can stick software in $HOME if they really want to, even if it's mounted > no-exec. So I think what you really want to avoid is unpredictable system > reconfiguration/change rather than software installation per-se. > > And yes for home/personal systems clearly any root/sudo prompts at all are > silly, the user should never be prompted for a password once they have > logged in - not even for software installation. I disagree - the pasword promt is a good indication of "you are now doing something that will (permanently) change your system configuration". And the gtk pasword dialog (gtksu?) also tells which program asked for root acess. -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
