Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

[suvayu ali]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Speaking of which, I am not exactly comfortable with why Fedora (or
>> Ubuntu) allow any user to install updates using PackageKit without any
>> root access (or sudo password). I feel that this is not really right
>> from a security point of view....
>
> I don't think that Ubuntu's ever had this issue and I'm pretty sure (I
> hope!) that only F12 had it, very briefly.

Isn't that how Packagekit behaves for updates? It only asks for the
root password when some new package is installed because of
dependencies. At least that is my experience in F13 and F14.

-- 
Suvayu

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