Re: [tlug] Replacing the WM in Gnome 2.24

[Nikolay Elenkov <nick@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> While we're at it, Fedora 10 seems to have this odd idea that all users
> of the machine should use the root password for admin tasks, rather than
> their own password (a la sudo). Can this be fixed?

From 9 on, Fedora uses PolicyKit ([1]) to grant authorizations to 
(most) GUI apps. The config utility is in

System->Preferences->System->Authorizations.

You can choose to require Authorization/Admin Authorization or no 
authorization for a certain action. Not all admin apps support PolicyKit 
yet, but most do. The plan([2]) is to move from userhelper
(gives special privileges to users on the physical console) to PolicyKit 
(if they don't come up with something new for F12, that is).

[1] http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit