2009/11/19 Chris Adams cmadams@hiwaay.net:
Once upon a time, Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com said:
Sure, that's not an insane idea at all. I would imagine most network admins worth their salt would be shipping custom PolicyKit overrides in F12 anyway.
If that is the Fedora expectation, then I expect a number of network admins will be choosing something other than Fedora.
If you're not shipping custom PolicyKit rules then at the moment normal users can, without authentication:
* Grant high priority scheduling to a user process * Connection sharing via a protected WiFi network * Suspend the system * Inhibit media detection * Mount a device * Restart the system * Get information about system services * Install debuginfos using abrt * Enroll new fingerprints
If you're a network administrator you should be already setting PolicyKit overrides for F10 and F11. It's basically the same for Ubuntu too. You certainly shouldn't just be doing "yum update -y" on every client machine...
Richard.