-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2012 10:38 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 20:49 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On 03/01/2012 05:43 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: >>> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 16:39 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> >>>> I believe Fedora 17 has an add user to admin group checkbox >>>> when adding the initial user, not sure if it is checked on or >>>> off by default. >>> >>> Off by default (having just tried it today). >>> >>> - ajax >>> >>> >>> >> Probably should default to on. > > I prefer put one note like: "if your name is Linus , check it, > please. " :) > > Prompting for the password for a user in the wheel group, is just the same as saying I am a human, to make sure an application can not cause the privileged escalation. If we had a mechanism called trusted path, where we knew a human caused an action, then you would not need to ask for the password. Of course we have wanted trusted path for nearly 10 years ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9Q6z8ACgkQrlYvE4MpobO/hACgk63+6jcvvFlTDb5kGVGsqx78 vQ8AoOBd2ICf58m2k20zCfUAwnAlNNhR =vDef -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
