On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:24:05PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > FWIW, this is something we sorely need in a modern system + all this is > not restricted to HAL at all; it's about having a formal way of > classifying what a user (uid) / group (gid) / program (security context) > is allowed to do and not to do. Think about parental controls for > example. So as this is applicable to many other things where we today do > broken stuff like running X11 applications as uid 0 - and that pretty > much includes everything in the System->Administration menu. It's just > broken by design. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you're currently thinking about all this. It'd be really nice if we could replace usermode/consolehelper with something more sane. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
