Re: [sabayon] On the topic of lockdown

[Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 13:29 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:32 +0100, Rob Bradford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:18 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:46 +0200, Rob Bradford wrote:
> > 
> > > > So the way the applier would work under my proposal is:
> > > > 
> > > > (1) If the lockdown feature is covered by a meta key (e.g. terminal)
> > > > then the key would be set and made mandatory at the same time and in the
> > > > same operation
> > > > 
> > > > (2) If the lockdown feature is part of the new generation without
> > > > explicit lockdown keys this would just set the appropriate keys to
> > > > mandatory. An example of this would be the background settings. These
> > > > are governed by three keys. Turning on background lockdown makes these
> > > > three keys mandatory.
> > > > 
> > > > If this was implemented under the current user-interface paradigm this
> > > > would be like having no checkbox and just a padlock. Which I think would
> > > > be very confusing. So basically i'm suggesting that the checkbox implies
> > > > mandatoryness (not a real word) and also the setting of a key in the
> > > > meta case.
> > > > 
> > > > Clear as mud? :)
> > > 
> > > Well. I still don't quite understand what you mean. Are you talking
> > > about the implementation, or the user interface?
> > 
> > Both obviously. In the GUI there would be no separate checkbox/padlock.
> > Just a check box. This has the effect of setting both the checkbox and
> > padlock in the current implementation for the explicit lockdown keys. 
> >
> > But also allows us to go sensibly implement setting mandatory for other
> > keys. (If we used the existing interface paradigm this would be like
> > having a padlock but no checkbox.)
> 
> But what use is the ability to set something to be mandatory when you're
> not able to set what its mandatory value is? Like disallowing the user
> to change the background color, but not allowing the sysadmin to set the
> default color to use.

This makes sense under Sabayon, no? Where the admin can set a background
and then use the lockdown tool to make that immutable?

Or alternatively perhaps you could join in on #348435 and persuade dobey
to accept a patch to use a lockdown key. In which case I can add it as
per the existing keys.

Cheers,

Rob
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Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>