Local users get to play root?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 18 17:49:35 UTC 2009



On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote:

> nodata wrote:
>> Am 2009-11-18 18:08, schrieb nodata:
>>> Yikes! When was it decided that non-root users get to play root?
>>> 
>>> Ref:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
>>> 
>>> This is horrible!
>>> 
>> 
>> Just to elaborate:
>> 
>> A local user is allowed to install software on the machine without being 
>> prompted for the root password.
>> 
>> This is a recipe for disaster in my opinion.
>> 
> So much for granting shell access on my servers. . .

You have PackageKit installed on servers? really?


-sv




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