PolicyKit - Authorizations - VNC - Add/Remove - Non-Root User

Albert Graham agraham at g-b.net
Fri Jul 17 01:18:38 UTC 2009


F-IN-A
>
> /* RANT ON
>
> I can't help but think that all of this policy junk on a default 
> install of the Linux Operating System is akin to microsoft's 
> implementation of the standard unix operating philosophy of operating 
> as a non-root user.  If we want to tighten up our security, then we 
> should have tools such as Policy Kit to do this, and I am assuming 
> that this is PolicyKit that is preventing me from running this and not 
> some other bug.  But its ridiculous to try the linux community in the 
> same fashion that Microsoft treats the average household user.
>
> END RANT */ 
> <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1208467>
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