Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 08:45:40 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 19:56 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> it defaults to unchecked.
>
> Frankly, this is a bad default....

I disagree, the standard for security is to give the least possible
permissions by default and add as necessary. For the vast majority of
day to day tasks don't need admin access these days due to polkit
policy for local users so for an average user there is no need.

Peter


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