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.

lin

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