On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:57 -0800, Mr.Scrooge wrote: > Does anyone know why the administration tools are not all accessible through a single panel? I > have seen this done in other distros and it makes alot of sense. Though in these other distros the > default five minute sudo rule ( once you enter the root password, you get five minutes of > unrestricted(gui) admin access) was still enabled which if you centralize administration doesn't > make a lot of sense. I know the "5 minute rule" can be eliminated via the addition of > "timestamp_timeout=0" but why not centralize administration and eliminate it all together? > Gnome-control-center will run from a command line. I guess the real question is why the > gnome-control-center isn't availiable via gui(by default) as a central administration tool. In the > case of System>Administration and all the individual options, the "5 minute rule" makes sense but > with central admin panel I don't see the need. Someone please enlighten me. ---- because people walk away from their desks for all sorts of reasons Craig
