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Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 21, 2009 17:03 UTC (Sat) by amonnet (guest, #54852)
In reply to: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation by drag
Parent article: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

I might look old fashionned, but i really enjoy the good old UNIX way to treat theses kind of permissions.

New PolicyKit, DeviceKit, IdontKnownWhatKit, with their balkanized permission configuration file, have me wanted to bang my head on a rock.

I really miss my old /etc/group, /etc/sudoers and /etc/security/group.conf when presented with a dialog box telling me i have no right to do something (and absolutely no understanding what configuration file i should change).

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Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 23, 2009 1:53 UTC (Mon) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

sudo is still available -- the first step I did after installing a Fedora/Red Hat system is to add myself to wheel and edit sudoers. There are cases where using yum from the command line is much faster (and customizable) than using PackageKit (and relying on PolicyKit to manage permissions)


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