RPM roadmapping

[Alexander Boström]

mån 2007-07-30 klockan 16:51 +0300 skrev Gilboa Davara:

> I second the above.
> Running HTTP/FTP client as root is -not- a god idea.
> 
> Even if HTTP is being pushed to an external plugin that's built around
> wget, this plug must be executed as user/guest and not as root.

Yes, the principle of least privilege does apply here.

Though, I would worry more about the fact that rpm -ivh http://...
doesn't verify any signatures. It's a good idea to:

 wget http://...
 rpm -K foo.rpm
 Look at the result, and then maybe:
 rpm -i foo.rpm

(rpm -K && rpm -i won't do, since it'll say OK for unsigned packages,
IIRC)

Or, even:

 wget http://...
 yum localinstall foo.rpm

Which, in turn, might be possible to simplify?

/abo