Re: GNOME privilege library

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:01 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > The approach we've been taking in Fedora is that the user is just not
> > prompted for authentication.  For example, NetworkManager doesn't force
> > you to enter the root password to switch wireless networks.  Nor does
> > HAL force you to enter the root password to access your USB key.  As
> > Havoc mentioned earlier, I think this is generally the right approach.
> 
> But there are cases where it is the right approach.  For some use cases
> you want transparent ease of use.  In other cases you don't.
> 

And in those cases you lock it down the same way you do any other
setting.

Havoc