le sam 10-11-2001 � 00:18, John Haywood a �crit : > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:26, you wrote: > > Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of > > My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything > > without searching for an hour or two.. > > > > >> shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control > > >> Center, Print Queue, etc, etc.. > > > > > > ??? i d'ont understand. On the desktop ? noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo > > > > No, not desktop. I mean something like Mandrake Control Center but > > for a user. Mandrake is very nice distribution as long as you have > > the root privileges. But if you try to use Mandrake as a normal > > user, it's just horrible. How to change your language, photo, > > password? They are very hard to find from menu (because most of > > the configuration tools need root privileges) if they can be found > > at all (<Ctrl> + <Alt> + +/-). Even I don't try to find some > > configuration tool from the menu, because it's much faster to > > run it directly from a terminal. My Control Panel would fix this > > together with Mandrake Control Center if they are both well made. > > Your point is well made, from a single-user perspective. > > In this case, access to what are essentially (in a *nix world) administrative > functions, are somewhat hidden and require root access for many. > > However, I feel you are missing the point somewhat, inasmuch as any *nix > system is really designed for multi-user and multilayer security, integrated > into a network. Sure, we could allow all and sundry the ability to change > their gdm/xdm 'face' or whatnot, but in a lab full of budding hackers, or a > company environment, I for one wouldn't want to be the administrator!!! > > Perhaps there is another way forward, without breaking the security model > which (though I may occasionally curse it) I have come to value over any MS > Garbage on offer - how about a sudo wizard on install?
usually users can change their password themselves if they have acces to passwd command. On top of that it's easy to implement a restriction. In the global config file of this new Control Center you can put a flag/variable wich will determine if users can start or not the application. We can also add a variable that will list users who are allwed to lauch it. Ot may not be so hard to do. > Haven't thought my way through this one yet, but it would appear to be > exactly what sudo is designed for.... -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Les petits lits font les grandes maitresses. -- Perret
