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Re: PolicyKit - Authorizations - VNC - Add/Remove - Non-Root User

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To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: PolicyKit - Authorizations - VNC - Add/Remove - Non-Root User

From: Albert Graham <agraham@xxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:18:38 +0100

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F-IN-A

/* RANT ON

I can't help but think that all of this policy junk on a default install of the Linux Operating System is akin to microsoft's implementation of the standard unix operating philosophy of operating as a non-root user. If we want to tighten up our security, then we should have tools such as Policy Kit to do this, and I am assuming that this is PolicyKit that is preventing me from running this and not some other bug. But its ridiculous to try the linux community in the same fashion that Microsoft treats the average household user.

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