Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

["Birger Kollstrand" <birger.kollstrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great news!

I hope package installation by non root users are under consideration?

If so, can that be made on a rules basis so that ie. my daughter can
update the packages already installed but not add new? Or add packages
from one pattern but not others?

A greedy thanks from

Birger :-)


2008/7/28, Ladislav Slezak <lslezak@xxxxxxx>:
>  Hi all!
>
>  I'd like to inform you about a new feature in Yast in openSUSE-11.1-Alpha1.
>
>  The feature allows you to configure role based access to yast. The current
>  implementation is limited only to some yast functionality (the SCR part),
> e.g.
>  it doesn't allow to install packages by a non-root user.
>
>  WARNING: the DBus support is still in development state, it may be buggy or
>  whatever else... I ask the brave people here to give it a try.
>
>  See http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/DBus_Integration for more
> details.
>  There is an example how to enable "time zone change" task for a non-root
> user.
>
>  If you find any problem with the DBus integration report it to
>  bugzilla.novell.com and assign the bug to me. Do not forget to attach also
> the
>  non-root log file (described in the link above).
>
>
>  --
>
>  Best Regards
>
>  Ladislav Slezák
>  Yast Developer
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