PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:06 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> This isn't mutually exclusive with finer-grained elevations but would
> allow finer grained
> elevations to stay out of the default install:  When additional
> privileged is needed, the
> system prompts you to authenticate via a secure prompt. At that point
> if you have the
> required credentials you could authorize the activity and, optionally,
> permit that account
> to perform the same operation in the future.
> 
> 

This is precisely the dialog that has been removed from F12 and is not
planned to be returned.

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