Local users get to play root?
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at pobox.com
Wed Nov 18 21:24:16 UTC 2009
Sorry, but this default (desktop users can install pkgs without root) is
just stupid. It is antithetical to all standard security models that
have come before in Fedora and other Linux distributions.
Instead of shielding yourselves with silly arguments about the lack of
lock-and-key on a desktop machine, ask yourself how many decades-old
assumptions you are wiping in one fell swoop. It's no excuse to give
viruses, pranksters and other vectors easy access to Fedora.
Even Microsoft Windows asks for elevated privileges for this sort of thing!
This is just shameful.
Jeff
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