Consistent PolicyKit system policy

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue Aug 11 14:02:41 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Kofler<kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>> Well, there are a variety of  technical approaches; maybe instead the
>> spin config is a desktop-spin-config RPM or something.  But the point
>> is that the CD downloaded from the website should be configured
>> appropriately for unmanaged (or really self-managed) systems, but we
>> need to be able to explain to administrators creating a managed
>> desktop environment how to configure things.  I think differentiating
>> on RPM defaults versus spin config is a relatively clean way to do
>> this, but other suggestions are welcome.
>
> That makes no sense. The default should be OK for all environments. And the
> current PackageKit setup works just fine for shared labs too.

Well, we're mainly limping along with the root password approach,
which is confusing for the unmanaged case.  Things will become more
different between the RPM config versus the desktop spin when that
goes away.




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