-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2010-10-13 at 08:45 -1000, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Forest... trees...forest...trees... this is getting off track. of course, only root should be by default allowed to update. The issue is control of *automatic* updates. ideally, root should be able to fully control that, to the point of allowing even a regular user to do one. can't there be a *simple* and easily verified method for that?
You are asking something different from the original question, which was simply make the updater applet not appear for plain users. (Changing the permissions of "/usr/sbin/packagekitd" does not work - I tried.) Now you are asking something different, which is allowing some users to update. Now, notice that any of the updates procedures will ask for the root password before actually doing any update - so the answer to your question, at present, is that only those users that know that password can run updates. Otherwise, in order to allow some users without giving them the root password, you have to configure sudoers, and tell the users to run the updaters with sudo - which is not what the applet does, at present. They have to call YOU via sudo, which has to be configured differently than the default suse config. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAky2ArsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UIngCePRJSA+9ZykZjoR4aDb2ks+zH CbsAn0u0J8n5JcrAAaYn70Ryz0As1cMV =8Zev -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org