On 8/22/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
So basically what you're saying is that we should just give up and go
home. Right? Do we seriously just want to give everybody full root
access and let whatever happens happens, never asking them to think a
second about what they're clicking or doing? Basically windows95/98
mentality?
Right now you can install new software on Fedora 7 out of the box - without
entering a password - by browsing to:
http://addons.mozilla.org
So, you do not need root access to screw yourself over. Really, everything
not under /home (i.e. under "root" control) is basically unimportant
infrastructure goo. How do I know this? Because almost every time I've
tried to upgrade Fedora something has gone wrong, so I've just preserved my
/home, blown away my disk, reinstalled, and reinstated /home and been at
basically the same point I was before. Just have to enable passwordless
sudo.
No one has really solved the problem of trojan software. Dialogs are
definitely not a solution. Now, we can have a dialog for it and I wouldn't
argue against it - but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that
having people enter a password is going to stop them from getting their MP3s
to play.