Gnome Status Applet

Is there a bug opened that the Sun Update Gnome Status applet should only run as root. It show's up on every users desktop on a multi user system such as Sun Ray or Tarantella.

[184 byte] By [4_Sun_Rays] at [2007-11-26 6:03:14]

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# 1

It was intended that the status applet be available to all users.

When you launch the Update Manager, it will require you to provide credentials to use the application (these credentials are typically username and password of an account that has root priviledge) .

If a user has such credentials, anything that they could do from UM, they could do from the command line, so perhaps I am missing the issue....

ejrider at 2007-7-6 13:27:39 >

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# 2

There should at least be an option to disable it. In most cases a normal user in a Sun Ray environment will not have these privelages so at the very least it's a waste of resources.

4_Sun_Rays at 2007-7-6 13:27:39 >

# 3

The ability to make this readily configurable system wide is on our future feature list. For now you can easily disable this feature for all users by either removing the file /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1001.swupnot or editing this file to comment out the one line that starts /usr/bin/swupnot

-Dave

rave@sun at 2007-7-6 13:27:39 >

# 4

Thanks Dave.

4_Sun_Rays at 2007-7-6 13:27:39 >

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