early-gdm redux ( I am sorry my way is better faster... for a desktop )

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 18.09.2007 12:33, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> On Ter, 2007-09-18 at 11:34 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Might be the case. But as I said: I'm not the maintainer anymore. Talk
>> to him about it (and maybe those core-fedora developers that vetoed
>> SUID-root fuse back then).
> 
> Somewhat uninformed opinion but: can't D-Bus system activation with its
> suid helper be used to do a fuse mount thus making the fuse binaries not
> needing to have any extraordinary bit set? There could be a D-Bus policy
> file that admins could edit and by default only console (local) users
> should be allowed to use this "mount service".

I don't think it would make much of a difference in the end and it would
likely be way more complicated.

CU
knurd