On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:22 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > 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. Yes, very sane. Could you add this to http://live.gnome.org/PackageKit please? Thanks. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
