Craig White <craig@tobyhouse.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:57 -0800, Mr.Scrooge wrote: > Does anyone know why the administration tools are not all accessible through a single panel? I > have seen this done in other distros and it makes alot of sense. Though in these other distros the > default five minute sudo rule ( once you enter the root password, you get five minutes of > unrestricted(gui) admin access) was still enabled which if you centralize administration doesn't > make a lot of sense. I know the "5 minute rule" can be eliminated via the addition of > "timestamp_timeout=0" but why not centralize administration and eliminate it all together? > Gnome-control-center will run from a command line. I guess the real question is why the > gnome-control-center isn't availiable via gui(by default) as a central administration tool. In the > case of System>Administration and all the individual options, the "5 minute rule" makes sense but > with central admin panel I don't see the need. Someone please enlighten me. ---- <because people walk away from their desks for all sorts of reasons Craig I hadn't considered the possibility that someone would be so careless. The timeout on sudo helps in this case i suppose but i think a better solution would be to centralize administration and then have it prompt you for a password if the there is no activity for 5 minutes or close the panel automagically but maybe this would cost too much in terms of resources. -Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </blockquote> <hr size=1>Never miss a thing. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs"> Make Yahoo your homepage.</a>