Local users get to play root?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Wed Nov 18 17:49:42 UTC 2009


Am 2009-11-18 18:14, schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> 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.
>
> Rahul
>

Thanks. I have changed the title to:
"All users get to install software on a machine they do not have the 
root password to"




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