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Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installationFedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installationPosted Nov 20, 2009 6:25 UTC (Fri) by AdamW (guest, #48457)In reply to: Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation by tkil Parent article: Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation
policykit is far more fine-grained both in terms of authentication methods and actions than _any_ previous system, including su and sudo.
with policykit you can require all sorts of types of authentication for any defined pk action, and actions are far more fine-grained (su and sudo can only make _entire processes_ run with changed privileges). authentication can be with root password, with user password, or with all sorts of other mechanisms. it's extremely powerful. so, yes, policykit would definitely allow you to do what you want if you configure it appropriately (allow any particular action with authentication via the user password).
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Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation Posted Nov 20, 2009 6:40 UTC (Fri) by tkil (subscriber, #1787) [Link] so, yes, policykit would definitely allow you to do what you want if you configure it appropriately (allow any particular action with authentication via the user password). Spiffy! I'll definitely have to look into PK in a bit more depth than I have. Thanks for the info!
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