On 24.01.2010 00:39, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: policykit-1 > Version: 0.96-1 > Severity: wishlist > > policykit-1 supports specifying permissions for groups, not just > individual users. > > Thus, please consider shipping policykit-1 with a .pkla file granting > all permissions (when on the console) to a new empty group. > The administrator can add users to this group to let them authenticate > via policykit without a password. > > (Arguably, users in the "sudo" group, as root-equivalent users, ought to > have this permission, but it seems safest to have a unique group > specific to policykit-1.)
I agree that something like this would be nice. Ubuntu traditionally uses a system group "admin" for this kind of purpose. Maybe this concept of a global group of "priviledged" is something we might want in Debian as well and warrrants some wider discussion? Are you interested in starting such a discussion (e.g. on debian-devel) and get further input on this topic from a wider audience? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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