[desktop-discuss] requirement for identifying a console user in RBAC

[James Andrewartha]

Riny Qian wrote:
> I think the purpose here is to provide the console user with some
> authorizations/privileges so that he/she can run some admin tools
> (e.g. gnome-sys-suspend, g-p-m, poweroff) successfully. Then there
> are at least two questions to be answered:
> 
> 1. Which admin tools should be provided to the console use? so that
>     which authorizations/privileges should be assigned to the console
>     user?
> 
> 2. How to dynamically assign authorizations/privileges to the console
>     user?

The community solution is called ConsoleKit and has gdm integration already.
 I don't think there's an official website, but the source is available at
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=ConsoleKit.git and some early docs at
http://people.freedesktop.org/~mccann/doc/ConsoleKit/ConsoleKit.html

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James Andrewartha