Am 25.05.2012 12:13, schrieb Johannes Meixner:
Hello,
On May 24 11:25 Andreas Jaeger wrote (excerpt):
Let's start a new thread to look a bit more at different roles.
I saw these two proposals:
Stefan Seyfried proposed a machine use case:
Having a few "presets" with the most common use cases, best accompanied with a short description is still a good idea IMHO. Maybe stuff like:
* "Admin configured server": you need the root password for all changes
-> basically like in good old times before polkit and friends: you'll need to "su -" and then use yast or whatever to change stuff.
* "User configured laptop": you are allowed to connect to WiFi networks, connect printers and install package updates with your user account. For adding software repositories and installing additional software, you'll need the root passowrd.
What exactly does it mean "you are allowed"?
Can the user do particular configuration changes without entering any password?
Not necessarily. They might need to enter their own password (sudo like). But for WIFI, even this might feel strange (somewhen in the past I managed to change the polkit stuff in the KDE gui for it by clueless clicking so that I am allowed to connect to WiFi networks now and so I missed all the fun in 12.1. However, most of the time I can just connect but one out of ten tries, some gnome-polkit-agent or such asks me a password. Of course it does not tell me which password. On the second try I then find out that it is my password it is asking for...). -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org