On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:41 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
Actually these daemons have lots of features (for example nm-applet
has
WPA2, VPN, secure access to user secrets) and is by far more advanced
that what we had before.
We simply just need to run them when no user is logged in.
And, for the record, the reason this is super desirable is that to
configure system-wide policy (e.g. when no one is logged in), we can
re-use exactly the same configuration applets, e.g. for the g-p-m
preference dialog you'd have a button
[ Set these settings as system wide ]
that would (possibly after auth) copy these settings to the system-wide
preference area. For a single-user laptop probably this would be done by
default. All this could (possibly) be useful on servers too; e.g. you
could have the policy for g-v-m when no-one is logged in to automount
media and share it on the local network via Avahi. Use case would be
some system that have a CD with patches he needs 100 different servers
to access; just pop in the disc and it's available on the network.
But now I'm drifting off-topic....
David