Security Changes For Fedora 9

Christian Iseli Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Fri Dec 21 08:17:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:29:29 -0800 (PST), riley.marquis at tcsresearch.org
wrote:
> With the new GCC-4.3.0 recently built for Fedora 9, we should forbid
> ordinary users access to the programs it contains, incl. rpmbuild,
> mock, etc.  Only members of the wheel, koji, and mock groups should
> have access to software development tools.  Did I miss any groups
> that should be allowed access?

Yikes!

We want to encourage people to develop software, not prevent them...
That's the whole idea behind free/open-source!

					Christian




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