On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:23 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 14:41 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > >> Personally I would prefer if we had just ONE system to do priv > >> escalation through. I wish there was some 'libsudo' or 'pamsudo' that > >> applications could go though then I would think your job, app writers > >> jobs and who knows else would be a lot easier. Either that or a sudod > >> but thats just crazy land. > > > > That's more or less exactly what PolicyKit is supposed to achieve. > > That sounds promising. Does PolicyKit have a Sudo shell level > replacement that can be used and how does one write rules for it (and > how does it fit into the general need for auditing everything larger > than the home user usually ends up needing?) pkexec is the sudo replacement. see pkexec(1). For the larger picture and how to write policy for PolicyKit, see polkit(8) and pklocalauthority(8). > [I am writing with a bad headache so I hope the questions are ok] Hope I didn't make it worse by pointing you at those man pages... -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
