few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Gian Paolo Mureddu
<gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
> Jesse Keating escribió:
>
>
> > 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.
>  >
>  >
>  Sarcastic disclaimer.
>
>  Why not install all binaries into /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and be
>  done with it, then? Why EVEN have another path, anyway? Better yet, why
>  don't we follow Ubuntu and make sudo the default, make regular users
>  have admin rights! Why do we even need root? What's that? Geeze, I mean
>  why even keep an ancient file system layout?

sudo adds also security so that is also a bonus.

Valent.

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