On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:41 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
Actually these daemons have lots of features (for example nm-applet has WPA2, VPN, secure access to user secrets) and is by far more advanced that what we had before.
We simply just need to run them when no user is logged in.
And, for the record, the reason this is super desirable is that to configure system-wide policy (e.g. when no one is logged in), we can re-use exactly the same configuration applets, e.g. for the g-p-m preference dialog you'd have a button
[ Set these settings as system wide ]
that would (possibly after auth) copy these settings to the system-wide preference area. For a single-user laptop probably this would be done by default. All this could (possibly) be useful on servers too; e.g. you could have the policy for g-v-m when no-one is logged in to automount media and share it on the local network via Avahi. Use case would be some system that have a CD with patches he needs 100 different servers to access; just pop in the disc and it's available on the network.
But now I'm drifting off-topic....
David