Conflicting design issue for hide-admin-tools-to-users

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> On Do, 2005-11-24 at 13:40 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Warty did not use the admin group, and sudo can
> > be configured much more fine grained than a coarse
> > 'everything/nothing' approach. With this, an user who is e. g. granted
> > to run only network-admin would never see it in the menu.
> 
> is this really relevant ? warty will be unsupported if dapper comes out,
> its 18 months cycle is done by then.

Systems that were installed with warty and upgraded to hoary or breezy
(or indeed dapper) will still be supported, and such systems will not
use the admin group unless the administrator has set it up manually.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]