[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#566586: Bug#566586: policykit-1: Please ship with a new empty group granted all permissions on console

[Michael Biebl]

On 24.01.2010 00:39, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: policykit-1
> Version: 0.96-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> policykit-1 supports specifying permissions for groups, not just
> individual users.
> 
> Thus, please consider shipping policykit-1 with a .pkla file granting
> all permissions (when on the console) to a new empty group.
> The administrator can add users to this group to let them authenticate
> via policykit without a password.
> 
> (Arguably, users in the "sudo" group, as root-equivalent users, ought to
> have this permission, but it seems safest to have a unique group
> specific to policykit-1.)

I agree that something like this would be nice.

Ubuntu traditionally uses a system group "admin" for this kind of purpose.
Maybe this concept of a global group of "priviledged" is something we might want
in Debian as well and warrrants some wider discussion?

Are you interested in starting such a discussion (e.g. on debian-devel) and get
further input on this topic from a wider audience?

Michael

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