Local users get to play root?

[Jeff Garzik]

On 11/18/2009 01:23 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, nodata wrote:
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>> Am 2009-11-18 19:18, schrieb Colin Walters:
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>> This is a major change. I vote for secure by default.
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>> If the admin wishes this "surprise-root" feature to be enabled he can
>> enable it.
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> I'm not sure how this is 'surprise root'. IT will only allow installs of
> pkgs signed with a key you trust from a repo you've setup.
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> which pretty much means: if the admin trusts the repo, then it is okay.
>
> if the admin doesn't trust the repo it should NOT be on the box and
> enabled b/c an untrusted repo can nuke your entire world.


By your own adminssion, we are talking about DESKTOP USERS.

How little social engineering + virus automation does it take to get 
such an install to include a malicious 3rd party repo?

	Jeff