On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:01:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Software installation *definitely* needs some sort of authentication and > special privilege. Sure, this needs to be made so it's not intimidating, but > we also shouldn't shoot ourselves in the head. You're thinking like an admin - yes for managed networks users probably should not be able to install whatever they like but bear in mind anybody can stick software in $HOME if they really want to, even if it's mounted no-exec. So I think what you really want to avoid is unpredictable system reconfiguration/change rather than software installation per-se. And yes for home/personal systems clearly any root/sudo prompts at all are silly, the user should never be prompted for a password once they have logged in - not even for software installation. thanks -mike -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
