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

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:04:58 -0500 suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Interesting! I never get any password prompts, but I also use yum as a
result (only).

Ranjan