On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 18:16 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 31 juillet 2007 à 10:36 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : > > 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 ? > > > > I figured security updates could be installed by anyone. > > No > If you go there you may as well make security updates automatically > installed without any user interaction Which would also be a valid policy choice. > If an install/update needs a user intervention it better be a qualified > strongly authenticated user and not the visiting neighbour kid you put > before a computer game so he has something to do while you talk together Sure. But I think there is merit in making this choice defined by an admin. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
