-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/2011 12:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Recently, > > we noticed that firstboot now has a checkbox to give admin privileges to > the first user. It does so by adding the user to the wheel group, which > unfortunately, doesn't do much [1] for PolicyKit, which was using a > different group to identify the Administrator role. > > To fix this disconnect, David, Bill and I decided that we should change > the PolicyKit policy that we ship to use the wheel group for this > purpose as well. At the same time, we are dropping the > not-really-implemented concept of 'Supervised' user. It can come back > when we have a working, integrated solution for parental controls. > > So, very soon, in F15, we will have only administrators (who are in the > wheel group), and regular users (who are not). The desktop_admin_r and > desktop_user_r groups will no longer be created or used. The changes to > the PolicyKit desktop policy can be seen here: [2]. > > Just thought I should mention this here in case anybody else was doing > anything with the desktop_admin_r or desktop_user_r groups and related > PolicyKit permissions. > > Matthias > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688363 > [2] > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=polkit.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fa422d5441f0d06e0b1d992cc3c270bc2c35c70 > > > Are we turning on the wheel group in sudo? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2CRNwACgkQrlYvE4MpobPe7gCbBeySV4CnRscKouJCg3EWUdCC R6QAnjQ+sJggqFtHaiFNXFOGJvgij0pH =1IZf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
