Local users get to play root?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Nov 18 18:50:11 UTC 2009


On 09-11-18 13:44:43, nodata wrote:
> Am 2009-11-18 19:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +0000,
> >    Bastien Nocera<bnocera at redhat.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >> Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd
> >> probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the 
> >> option, or all users but with the need to authenticate as an 
> >> admin.
> >
> > This seems pretty reasonable.
> 
> I don't like the way Fedora is going with this: digging out something 
> that works and saying "we'll replace it later" makes no sense. Make 
> it work now, or *keep it in*.

Fedora has always been this way.  Have you tried to use sound or video 
in the past few releases?  I think it's called "creative destruction".

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