Local users get to play root?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 18 19:54:33 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 01:26 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 00:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 11/19/2009 12:31 AM, nodata wrote:
>>>
>>> Rahul, it seems to be that the person who made this change (fesco
>>> approved?) is the one who should answer why the change is a good thing,
>>> rather than "oh I changed it, now tell me why it's bad". Do you know who
>>> it was?
>>
>> I don't see why FESCo should be involved and I have no idea who made
>> this decision. I would have preferred the change to be announced and
>> documented in detail regardless of that. I assume David Zeuthen? (CC'ed)
> 
> Jeez, Rahul. This has nothing to do with polkit per se, only PackageKit
> and how it decides to use polkit. 

Well, your reaction sounds like, everybody is expected to know this
automatically. It is clear to me, that is not the case. So let's not
overreact.

Rahul




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