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.
The problem is the *Default* not the fact that you can consciously allow
users to update without a password.
On some machines I allow that no problem cause I explained the users how
to do things, on some others not, and most importantly I do that per
user.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York