Local users get to play root?
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 17:30:03 UTC 2009
2009/11/18 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> On 11/18/2009 10:38 PM, nodata wrote:
>> Yikes! When was it decided that non-root users get to play root?
>>
>> Ref:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
>>
>> This is horrible!
>
> The subject of the mail doesn't actually match the description in the
> bug report. Richard Hughes says:
>
> "PackageKit allows you to install signed content from signed
> repositories without a password by default. It only asks you to
> authenticate if anything is unsigned or the signatures are wrong"
>
> If you have a problem with this, do explain why. Not suggesting it is
> not a problem but being more descriptive does help.
Well, it's all a bit inconsistent presently:
$ yum install maxima
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
You need to be root to perform this command.
$ maxima
Command not found. Install package 'maxima' to provide command 'maxima'? [N/y]
* Installing packages..
* Getting information..
* Resolving dependencies..
The following packages have to be installed:
sbcl-1.0.30-2.fc12.x86_64 Steel Bank Common Lisp
wxBase-2.8.10-6.fc12.x86_64 Non-GUI support classes from the wxWidgets library
wxGTK-2.8.10-6.fc12.x86_64 GTK2 port of the wxWidgets GUI library
gnuplot-common-4.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64 common gnuplot parts
cl-asdf-20071110-7.fc12.noarch Another System Definition Facility
gnuplot-4.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64 A program for plotting mathematical
expressions and data
maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.19.2-1.fc12.x86_64 Maxima compiled with SBCL
common-lisp-controller-6.15-8.fc12.noarch Common Lisp source and
compiler manager
Proceed with changes? [N/y]
* Waiting for authentication..
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Downloading packages..
* Testing changes..
* Installing packages..
* Scanning applications.. [jgu at withnail ~]$ Command not found.
Install package 'maxima' to provide command 'maxima'? [N/y] ^C
... and what's more it bails with "command not found" anyway.... which
component isn't working here?
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