Local users get to play root?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 17:45:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:08 +0100, nodata wrote:
> Yikes! When was it decided that non-root users get to play root?
> 
> Ref:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
> 
> This is horrible!

Seems fair as the default for a desktop installation.

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.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog




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