On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Greg Swift <xaeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 05:36, Nikos Roussos <nikos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Here is a weird example of how Fedora currenty handles some permission >> procedures. I created a standard user account (no admin rights) and I'm >> trying to install a package. When I press apply I'm prompted to enter a >> password. Since I have no admin rights I would expect to be asked for the >> root password. Instead of that I'm asked to enter a password of another user >> who happens to be in the administrative group! >> >> See the screenshot as a proof: >> http://s.autoverse.net/yYi6AF >> See on the top right corner that I'm logged in with another account. >> >> So in the UX level we have actually disabled the root account (I can >> remember when was the last time I was prompted to enter it) thus we keep >> asking for a root password during installation that's ends up confusing >> people about its purpose. >> >> >> PS. an interesting question: if I had two users on my system belonging to >> the administrative group. which one's password I'll be prompted to enter >> when I'm logged with a standard user account, like the example above. >> > > I experience a similar scenario. On my home system (f16) I have my wife and > both in the wheel group. Every time I go to run virt-manager I get prompted > for her password. I do believe she is first in the wheel group after root > in /etc/group. However this doesn't make any sense to me. It makes more > sense for users that need that level of access to all know the root password > rather than the users to know another user's password. Even then, if I am > in the same group, doesn't it make more since to either prompt for my own > password or just allow me? We know each others password so i've always > shrugged it off cause I'm looking at other issues the few times when I am > playing with the virtuals at home but since someone brought it up... This sub-thread seems to have gotten dropped but I was hoping for a Fedora admin type to pipe and say, "Hmm... That shouldn't happen.." I ran into this on my wife's laptop where I created my account first to keep the UID/GID's consistent across our systems but when I added her account I did mark it as an admin account, yet each time it prompts her for my password, not hers. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
