On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 05:18 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:51:33AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > Toby logs into his desktop. A notification area icon with a critical > > icon appears in the top right and a libnotify popup tells him there are > > 3 three critical security updates. The libnotify popup has three > > Who is Toby, is he authorised to install updates ? > > One big problem throughout the Fedora and RHEL code is that nobody has > been willing to actually distinguish between install types at install > time. That is what causes the limits on automounting file systems, it is > what stops us doing Ubuntu type sudo and it is what breaks this. > > We need to know if the system is > - User managed > - Centrally managed > - Physical access implies control (typical home PC) > > and ask that in a sane fashion I only see two cases, and neither involves asking. 1) The person at the computer is "responsible" for it 2) Someone else is responsible The solution is simple - default to 1) for CDs downloaded from the Fedora website. For 2), make it convenient for the responsible person can set things up in whatever paranoid fashion they like - say person at computer has to stand on one foot and spin around, then swipe their fingerprint and type four passwords before they can download software. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
