blivet-gui announcement

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 12:47 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:

> > I can believe it'd be hard work, but I think you overstate the case by a
> > long way when you say it'd be impossible. It may be finicky work, but it
> > seems unlikely that it'd be easier to write an entirely new partitioning
> > app with all of blivet's capabilities from the ground up (with a good
> > privilege model) than it would be to take advantage of all that existing
> > code for doing the very difficult and complex work of partitioning, and
> > retrofit a decent privilege model onto it.
> 
> well given blivet is a library, shouldn't it be simple enough to put it
> behind a dbus interface and have the GUI and actual operation be
> separated by dbus and authorized via mechanisms like polkit or similar ?
> 
> That should pretty much solve the privilege separation between gui and
> core code.

yeah, that'd be a first step, but presumably the 'ideal' model would
distinguish between privileged and non-privileged library operations -
mostly, I'd assume, examining current status won't need privs, but
making changes will.
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