Initial draft of privilege escalation policy

Christopher Beland beland at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jan 22 01:44:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:01 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> That's exactly what I tried to do already, which is why it doesn't say
> 'enter the root password', but 'authenticate as the root user'. I'm not
> sure how to phrase 'authenticate with appropriate privileges' in a way
> that actually is correct and is meaningful enough.

Maybe a small number of examples of what is OK and what is not would
help people interpret the abstract rules.

-B.



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