few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 13:13:20 UTC 2008
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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