On 10/06/2008 07:03 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
For many reasons, it is a mistake to let a plain user updated a system, that is the task of root, or the user running as user but that happens to be root too.
Thus, it is also a mistake to offer a plain user to upgrade the system. Better not to bother him. It is also a mistake to run the update applet for every user that logs into the machine. It should only run for that user of users that maintain the machine. It is also a waste of resources.
Thus, there should be a configurable list of users that will get the applet running automatically (all, some, none).
So, as we don't have that feature, what hack can we do to imitate it?
Maybe it would suffice to not auto load at login by default, i.e. off by default, but when a user starts it it prompts (like some do) whether to start always, assuming the user that goes to the trouble to start it probably knows what they are doing. That user should be the user that does possess the root password. No root password then it would ignore the always start option. Seems doable for a programmer, which I am not. :-) -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org