On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:11:18PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > It seems the latest way of doing this is via PolicyKit. IMHO all > > PolicyKit configuration should be "secure by default", > > "secure" is an meaningless term without reference to a deployment > model and threat model, Chris gave you such a model: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fedora has made a big push into the multi-user desktop (which many home > computers are now) with things like fast user switching. In many such > setups, not all users are considered "administrators" of the system > (think parents and kids for example). However, Fedora continues to slip > in (with no announcement and no documentation on how to change) things > that allow the console user to be an administrator without any > additional authentication. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
