James Andrewartha wrote: > Riny Qian wrote: > >> I think the purpose here is to provide the console user with some >> authorizations/privileges so that he/she can run some admin tools >> (e.g. gnome-sys-suspend, g-p-m, poweroff) successfully. Then there >> are at least two questions to be answered: >> >> 1. Which admin tools should be provided to the console use? so that >> which authorizations/privileges should be assigned to the console >> user? >> >> 2. How to dynamically assign authorizations/privileges to the console >> user? >> > > The community solution is called ConsoleKit and has gdm integration already. > I don't think there's an official website, but the source is available at > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=ConsoleKit.git and some early docs at > http://people.freedesktop.org/~mccann/doc/ConsoleKit/ConsoleKit.html > Do you mean we should consider use consolekit :-) ? Unfortunately, not all the applications use consolekit, especially those command line tools existing in Solaris. But maybe Gnome based admin tools ( or tools from community ) will use it in the future.
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