Proposing to host system-auth-agent in fdo

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Thu Oct 14 02:17:17 EEST 2004


Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> For example, I, as a laptop user (which has only my user and some
> sporadic users) have to change usually my network configuration, change
> sometimes my time zone, suspend my computer, etc... so this is a
> solution that allows me to say "of course this user can do this!" and,
> at the same time, that's able to scalate to multiuser environments
> without compromising security.

You have not shown in any of these examples why sudo is not a good 
solution. I can (and do) do all of these things with sudo.

"of course this user can do this!" is *exactly* what sudo is designed for.

--Pat



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