On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:21 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > It does not stop me from doing what I want to do. It just makes it more > difficult and time-consuming. It does not actually enhance security in > any meaningful way. And it disrespects me by implying that I effectively > do not have the brains to come in out of the rain. And it disrespects > every person who wrote the GUI code which you implicitly claim is insecure. Please read http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html The GTK developers say "do not run GUI code as root". They are the ones who write the GUI code. As for gnome-packagekit, _I_ wrote the code. Trust me, you have to be very paranoid when writing code that runs as uid 0, and that's not your average programmer writing a few hundred lines of python. Richard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
