On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:42:49PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > On Saturday, 31 בOctober 2009 16:40:47 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote: > > > > I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from > > > > the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network, > > > > etc. to work without a "policy kit" developed by GUI people (I > > > > understand it comes from Gnome). > > Please try to cut the lines better next time. It looks like I said > the above paragraph, while in reality it was Oleg... > > > > However, you are correct that it's easy to see its GNOME origins. There > > > is no command line client. This is not because the design is bad > > > or architectural limitations --- nobody bothered writing one yet. > > > You can try wicd, I tested it under Debian and it was "pretty good". I > > don't > > know how it will break Fedroa by killing NetworkManager and installing wicd > > What does it have to do with the subject? > > We discussed PolicyKit, integration with NetworkManager, lack of good > command line integration and how bad is running big program stacks > (GUI) as suid programs: > 1. wicd is a GUI program (it uses GTK).
wicd does not rely on the gnome keyring and hence needs no GUI to run. > 2. Like many similar older programs, there's no NetworkManager integration. > 3. Therefore they all need to run as root (via suid/sudo/kdesu/etc) Like WhatEverCapitalKit, wicd's client connects with the daemon through dbus and does not require sudo. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
