On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Lars Seipel <lars.sei...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> We don't, actually. *Only* applications running in a session of a member >> of the wheel group would have that right, and those applications are pretty >> much root-equivalent anyway. (Many GNOME users probably use such a setup, >> but it's not at all the only one possible.) > > Ugh. This is implemented in PolicyKit? Where was this change > discussed/announced and when did it happen? Reinterpreting wheel group > membership to give user accounts mighty powers without requiring > re-authentication is a pretty major change and probably unexpected for > most users.
I can't recall when this happened but it was done to not have two ways to define "user with more privileges" -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
