On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:20 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > It's just not been implemented yet. PolicyKit certainly allows for > this > > level of flexibility, though, and the desktop team plan to use it, > as > > Matthias says. An 'administrators' group will be defined which can > do > > quite a lot of the things that are restricted by this policy, and > you'll > > be able to add user accounts to it. Those users will be able to > perform > > those actions either with no additional authorization or by > > authenticating as themselves (rather than root). This isn't at all > > implemented yet, though, even in Rawhide. > > > > It is largely implemented, actually, even in F12. To see it in action, > install polkit-desktop-policy, which adds two Unix groups and > associates > policykit policies with it. Then join one of the groups to make the > policies apply to yourself. The group names are desktop_admin_r and > desktop_user_r. > > The one reason why we've held off on pushing this further is that we > are > lacking the user account tool that lets use nicely manage these > groups/profiles. For that, see > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog Ooh! Hidden awesomeness! Very neat. Thanks for the correction. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
