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

[suvayu ali]

Hi Ranjan,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:41:55 -0500 suvayu ali
> <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That was exactly my point. When the icon appears, one can click and say
> update packages (or something like that). No password is ever asked for.
> This approach to security (or lack thereof) makes me squeamish.
>
> Perhaps this is not a problem for U, but definitely for F.
>

Yes, I was agreeing with you and trying to point to Tom that the root
password prompt does not appear always. :)

> Best wishes,
> Ranjan

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Suvayu

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