fedora 21 lets me install packages without root

[drago01]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 20.10.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
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>> On 20 October 2014 07:45, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org
>> <mailto:mattdm at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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>>     On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:21:54AM -0700, James Patterson wrote:
>>     > I'd like consistent behavior please.
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>>     When possible, that is ideal. But yum doesn't have a built-in
>> privilege
>>     escalation mechanism to do this.
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>>     > Typing yum install requires a password, so should be the behaviour
>> for
>>     > running a command that doesn't exist causing a package to be
>> installed.
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>>     Only signed packages from system repositories can be installed.
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>>
>> So if I mistype 'rm' as rn or rb will lrzsz or rn be installed so that
>> it does the wrong thing next time? Or is this only some commands? And
>> beyond removing someone from the wheel group what is the way to turn
>> this off?
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>
> uninstall anything in context of packagekit and just use yum

No you can configure polkit instead ... see man polkit.