Initial draft of privilege escalation policy

Christopher Beland beland at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jan 20 14:21:50 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 09:09 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > * Add, remove, upgrade or downgrade any system-wide application or
> > shared resource (packaged or otherwise)
> 
> I don't see how a Fedora policy can apply to non-packaged resources;
> other than the fact that those resources will be subject to normal
> access control (e.g. file permissions).

It should if a Fedora-packaged program is installing an unpackaged
application, font, plugin, symlink to an application alternative, etc.

-B.



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