On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:01:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
Software installation *definitely* needs some sort of authentication
and
special privilege. Sure, this needs to be made so it's not intimidating, but
we also shouldn't shoot ourselves in the head.
You're thinking like an admin - yes for managed networks users probably
should not be able to install whatever they like but bear in mind anybody
can stick software in $HOME if they really want to, even if it's mounted
no-exec. So I think what you really want to avoid is unpredictable system
reconfiguration/change rather than software installation per-se.
And yes for home/personal systems clearly any root/sudo prompts at all are
silly, the user should never be prompted for a password once they have
logged in - not even for software installation.
thanks -mike