Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > Nobody said the user can't give his input on how the service will behave.
> > That's what the GUI is for, and what configuration files are for.
>
> The user needs to be able to configure this without any form of
> excessive privileges, which means that some amount of policy has to be
> determined by processes running as the user. It's also important that
> this sort of thing can only be controlled by an appropriate user - if
> I'm logged in on a background VT, I shouldn't be able to trigger power
> management state transitions.
Agreed.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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