Local users get to play root?

[Jeff Garzik]

On 11/18/2009 05:36 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jeff Garzik<jgarzik at pobox.com>  wrote:
>>
>> You forget we have botnets doing distributed cracking now.
>
> But...if you've cracked the root password, there are rather easier
> (and less audited) routes to trojaning the system than adding a third
> party yum repository and downloading your malicious RPM.

I am talking about cracking signing keys, not root passwords.

	Jeff