On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 15:46 -0800, Scott Doty wrote: > On 03/03/2012 03:22 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Scott Doty<scott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> How about allowing all printer management of local printers (including > >> adding a network printer, as Linus& his daughter were dealing with) with > >> two factors: > >> > >> 1) user password > >> 2) physical access > >> > >> ...because PolKit already knows when the user is sitting at the console, > >> right? > > "Sitting at the console" is not equivalent to "unrestricted physical > > access" allowed, e.g. in any university computer lab. > > Agreed. Since we're talking two use case though -- home user and lab > user -- it would make sense to have another rpm that would be installed > to give the desired behavior to one of the cases (the other case being > the default). > > I'm not sure about the demographics of Fedora installations, but I would > suspect that most lab administrators will be more cognizant of what goes > into their lab machines. Thus, I suggest there be added a new package > to alter the behavior for lab machines (and similar use cases), > something like polkit-i-am-a-lab, or whichever. > > What do you think? I think that having RPM packages installed (or not) is not a suitable means for switching on and off certain (sets of) configuration. Beyond that (and I'm not through the thread completely, so forgive me if that's been stated elsewhere already), I think it'd be worthwhile to think about usage profiles like this which come with a set of configuration defaults tailored to a particular use case, overridable/extensible by the admin. We just shouldn't come up with some kind of OO-monster for which admins will hate us. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
