Colin Walters wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Then you, the *administrator* of that machine (because, truly, that's your role) can configure it to do so. It doesn't mean it should do so out of the box.
That said, I do wish Fedora made it easier to do the remote admin for family/friends type thing. I'm not really thinking of setting up mail servers, but more putting together something like Copilot (https://www.copilot.com/) from the tools we have (Vino, ssh, Telepathy). But that's another discussion...
I think policykit introduces some really ugly issues issues here - or at least if it works the same as in ubuntu in terms of giving unwarranted privileges to console sessions and requiring a console session to use the GUI admin tools if you don't log in as root. You could use VNC or NX/freenx session shadowing with an already logged in console user session, but that's not exactly right for administration since it might really be an unprivileged user sitting there.