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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:56:43
Message-Id: 20161117074400.7908.242EA9B5@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion? by Rich Freeman
1 On 2016-11-16 20:48, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > Policykit also lets you do stuff like saying this user is allowed to
4 > restart this service, but not do anything else, and so on, using a
5 > configuration which is flexible and works across different
6 > applications/etc.
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8 I'm curious what you mean by "service" here. Surely not the things
9 managed by rc-service, only root can touch them, right? Or regular
10 users via sudo, and then sudo config restricts what they can do.
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12 I'm _guessing_ you mean desktop services like gnome-settings, and my
13 retort is, I don't have any of those, and I never will.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion? Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>