Updates done by everyone

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:01:43AM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> As others have said, your basic idea is a security risk. You should
> really re-think your idea.

I don't think it really is much of one, provided that your
package-installing application (pup, in this case) properly validates
package signatures. Only valid Fedora packages could be installed.

This is a *management* nightmare for systems where there's more than just
one user who is also the system admin, but otherwise should be fundametnally
okay.


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