[dundee] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

Kris Davidson davidson.kris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 16:06:36 UTC 2009


Even OSX has something similar with its preferences server.

Kris

2009/11/20 Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>:
>>  I think people will be happier with this, the only way package kit could be
>> used without a root password and be acceptable for security and System
>> Administrators was if the package kit could be configurable by the System
>> Administrator so only admin-vetted packages could be downloaded.
>
> Thats one of the functions of Active Directory and Group Policy, which
> are two of the things Linux really needs for widespread corporate
> adoption.
>
> Kris
>



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