On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:01 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
I don't think the people at Red Hat are entirely stupid, though I
disagree with them on some matters and I think that preventing root from
using GUIs is futile and misguided, especially as a good proportion of
the software must be run with root privilege. Think, RH the
configuration tools run with root privilege. That means all of GTK,
python, perl and X,
That's exactly why we are heavily supporting the development and
integration of PolicyKit, which solves precisely that problem.
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