Local users get to play root?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Ricky Zhou <ricky at fedoraproject.org> said:
> I might be wrong on this, but wouldn't the attacker need to trick 
> yum/packagekit into using the malicious repo first?  I didn't think that 
> was allowed for non-root users.

1.5 words: NetworkManager.  Think about it.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.