On 08/04/16 16:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> The only mandatory component in a linux system, by definition, is the
> Linux kernel.
>
> A linux system could consist of nothing but a kernel with
> init=/usr/local/bin/hello-world.
>
> Most traditional linux distros are going to run policykit though. Of
> course you can have a mostly-traditional distro that doesn't, at least
> until everything wants to use dbus or whatever ends up replacing it
> once son-of-kdbus comes along and gets accepted.
>
Being serious though, and playing Devil's Advocate of course, assuming
you have no use for a desktop manager, etc, hence no need for dbus or
it's 'friends' and policykit or it's pals, and you're not a "systemd
fan" etc .. how are we granting the correct permissions for binaries ..
just relying now on the owner and execute bits being set perfectly for
each binary, assuming everything is arbitrarily moved to /xbin ...
