On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:35:30 pm Simo Sorce wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:23 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> I'm not sure how this is 'surprise root'. IT will only allow installs
> of pkgs signed with a key you trust from a repo you've setup.
>
> which pretty much means: if the admin trusts the repo, then it is
> okay.
>
> if the admin doesn't trust the repo it should NOT be on the box and
> enabled b/c an untrusted repo can nuke your entire world.
I may trust the repo, that doesn't mean I want to allow installation of
any package that happens to live on that repo.
I agree with this sentiment. It would be a huge surprise for setuid apps to
suddenly start showing up on boxes.
The problem is the *Default* not the fact that you can consciously
allow
users to update without a password.
And I wonder what the audit trail will show? Does it show which user installed
these packages?
-Steve