On May 31, 2016 15:44, "Adam Williamson" <adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 15:26 -0400, Eric Griffith wrote:
> > What if the Anaconda team changed it so the "Make this user an
> > administrator" checkbox also enabled linger?
>
> anaconda team is (rightly) opposed to anything like this, in terms of
> magic code in anaconda that changes things. All that box does is put
> the user in the wheel group (and maybe tell PolicyKit they're an admin,
> I forget if that's a separate thing or not). It does not and will not
> do anything else. Anything else has to be achieved in terms of saying
> 'wheel members / PK admins can do X'.

Fair enough, reasonable position. Would this avenue be reasonable / acceptable / possible, then? Can logind read and respond to policykit? Such as "members of wheel can linger"? I'm not familiar enough with the internals of either logind or policykit to know how interconnected they can be.