On 02.12.2014 11:11, Stephen P. Villano wrote: > Personally, I prefer SElinux to polkit, but such isn't part of the
Dont they play in entirely different areas ? I just started to care about polkit, when began doing weird things and causing network-manager to break (more precise: the gnome frontend suddenly wasn't authorized anymore). So I digged a bit deeper, wondering why the usual group memberships didn't work anymore (had to rewrite several polkit configs to make it work again). At that point it was clear to me that it's a pretty useless invention, just caused by the fact that some folks, for dubious reasons, prefer doing everything via RPC on an broadcast channel (dbus) and then have the problem of selective access control - things which old-fashnioned Unix guys like me always did via direct links and filesystem permissions. One of my side projects now is getting rid of polkit/dbus at all, replace it by a clean plan9-alike approach, of course using factotum for authentication. > I used to run SuSE until Novell screwed it up. They've been screwing up even before Novell. 4.4.1 was the best release they ever had - after that it just went worse and worse. All the good people had been running away (I just happen to know some of them personally, and know some of their reasons) - the novell merge was more a logical consequence of that path :p cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss