Local users get to play root?

[Peter Jones]

On 11/18/2009 03:24 PM, nodata wrote:
> Am 2009-11-18 21:02, schrieb Peter Jones:
>> On 11/18/2009 01:52 PM, nodata wrote:
>>> Am 2009-11-18 19:50, schrieb Tony Nelson:
>>>> 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".
>>>
>>> and ripping out the boot log for several releases... that was the
>>> opposite of helpful.
>>
>> Please do try and stay on topic.  This is an entirely unrelated
>> problem which
>> has been resolved.
> 
> It's related because it's the same problem.
> 
> In both cases functionality was missing before a suitable replacement
> was available.

Related to the topic is not the same as on topic.

-- 
        Peter

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