Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Jan 30 06:20:44 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:40 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:

> > Please do provide any and all feedback on the proposed policy. if we can
> > get it into a shape which most people on the list would find acceptable,
> > my next step will be to take it back to FESco for them to review.
> > Thanks.
> 
> So a general theme that seems to run through the policy of "don't
> affect other users", and some things have exceptions (shutdown and
> reboot), but others don't (change the system time, adding new
> software).  Is there a rationale for that?

Well, reboot is a one-time operation; if there's only one user logged
in, they can only affect themselves by rebooting. Adjusting the clock or
installing new software isn't the same.
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