'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 08/09/12 18:12 did gyre and gimble: > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> We can now replace this symlink with a direct link to systemctl and >> policy kit should take care of things. Seems odd that shutdown was >> affected by msec, but halt, reboot and poweroff were not. Seems kinda >> pointless and a mis-feature really. > > I would not say pointless, allowing non root user to shutdown the > machine makes sense to be part of the security policy of the machine
As a feature it's not pointless, but as an implementation it didn't really cover things and I call it pointless as the feature only covered the shutdown binary and not poweroff, halt or reboot binaries. >> As it never really worked, I'll kill it from msec and just ship it >> statically. If this msec feature is needed/desirable then it'll need to >> be re-implemented as an automatic edit of the policykit policy. > > Well a lot of what msec does should be updated for current technologies > drakx should also be updated to require authorization for actions > instead of running as root Indeedy. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
