Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

[suvayu ali]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Check your install with "pkaction --verbose --action-id
> org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install".
>
> On F12 at launch, you got:
>
> implicit any: no
> implicit inactive: no
> implicit active: yes
>
> so anyone logged in at the console could install a package without
> providing a password.
>
> On F12 after launch (and complaints), you got:
>
> implicit any: no
> implicit inactive: no
> implicit active: auth_admin or auth_admin_keep (I'm not sure which)
>
> so a password had to be entered to install (with "_keep" there's a
> delay whereby a password doesn't have to be entered for a some set
> period of time - just like sudo behaves).
>
> On F15, you get:
>
> implicit any: no
> implicit inactive: no
> implicit active: auth_admin_keep

Yes this is what I get for both my F13 and F14 systems. I guess that
explains the periodic password prompts :) Thanks a lot for the
information. Much appreciated.

-- 
Suvayu

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