On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 15:46 -0800, Scott Doty wrote:
On 03/03/2012 03:22 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Scott Doty<scott(a)ponzo.net> wrote:
>> How about allowing all printer management of local printers (including
>> adding a network printer, as Linus& his daughter were dealing with) with
>> two factors:
>>
>> 1) user password
>> 2) physical access
>>
>> ...because PolKit already knows when the user is sitting at the console,
>> right?
> "Sitting at the console" is not equivalent to "unrestricted physical
> access" allowed, e.g. in any university computer lab.
Agreed. Since we're talking two use case though -- home user and lab
user -- it would make sense to have another rpm that would be installed
to give the desired behavior to one of the cases (the other case being
the default).
I'm not sure about the demographics of Fedora installations, but I would
suspect that most lab administrators will be more cognizant of what goes
into their lab machines. Thus, I suggest there be added a new package
to alter the behavior for lab machines (and similar use cases),
something like polkit-i-am-a-lab, or whichever.
What do you think?
I think that having RPM packages installed (or not) is not a suitable
means for switching on and off certain (sets of) configuration.
Beyond that (and I'm not through the thread completely, so forgive me if
that's been stated elsewhere already), I think it'd be worthwhile to
think about usage profiles like this which come with a set of
configuration defaults tailored to a particular use case,
overridable/extensible by the admin. We just shouldn't come up with some
kind of OO-monster for which admins will hate us.
Nils
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