Re: security policy / root passwords

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Daniel Pocock <daniel@trendhosting.net> writes:
> My feeling is that the user should be told "go and run sudo or su in a
> terminal window you opened manually"

I don't think terminal emulation is really a good solution here but your
idea does have some merits. Maybe you can make your own policykit agent
that asks for the password only if you first navigate to some menu where
you can approve pending policykit authentication requests? If it existed
it could be proposed as an alternative and maybe in time as the default?