Re: tangent: PolicyKit and PAM

2009-11-24 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:27:40PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: Like I said, this is a tangent, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to work on this. But it'd be cool if they did. Just as everybody else is struggling to get away from pam's awful

Re: tangent: PolicyKit and PAM

2009-11-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:27:40PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Like I said, this is a tangent, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to > > work on this. But it'd be cool if they did. > Just as everybody else is struggling to get away from pam's awful > apis...I don't think this would be a s

Re: tangent: PolicyKit and PAM

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Like I said, this is a tangent, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to > work on this. But it'd be cool if they did. Just as everybody else is struggling to get away from pam's awful apis...I don't think this would be a step forward; b

tangent: PolicyKit and PAM

2009-11-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:44:00PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > 1. In fact, a PAM-backed authority for PolicyKit might be interesting and > > useful -- but there's a tangent. > What do you think PolicyKit is using for authentication ? > See > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/tree/src/pol