few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:42 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:02 -0600, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>  > > but being as /sbin paths are
>  > > meant for administrative tasks, I actually do see having them as part of
>  > > a regular user's PATH a potential security risk.
>  >
>  > That's completely bogus.  A "hidden path" offers 0 security.  If you
>  > don't want your users running them, set the permissions on the binary,
>  > or better yet, have the binary check the EUID of the caller.  If
>  > non-root, display that the command is for root users, but also allow the
>  > user to get --help and other usage or informational output from the
>  > command.  Just don't allow non-root users to apply anything.  There
>  > really is no reason I can think of to hide this crap in a different
>  > directory.  It just adds needless complication and confusion.
>  >
>
>  +1
>  -sv

I'll post a RFE in BZ regarding this issue. What component should I choose?

Valent.

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