click to gain access

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Fri Nov 7 04:57:53 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Nicolò Chieffo <84yelo3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to configure policikit
> to only ask for a confirmation (without needing to insert a password)
> to gain the rights to do a privileged operation.
> just a window wit "confirm" and "caancel" buttons
>
> It would be useful for low security home computers.

For home computers it would be more useful to grant all the necessary
privileged to a user. The dialog is not there to get confirmation for
an action, it's there to check if the user has the necessary rights.
That's why it only appears once for every policy.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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