Re: Fedora 22 update security

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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:29:00PM +0000, Thiyagarajan, Nethaji wrote:
> Any normal user could easily install the updates that include kernel,
> X11 and all system related installs without the need for the system
> administrator. This might disrupt or falsify if some settings are
> done by the system administrator.

Two things:

* Only official, signed packages can be installed in this way. There's
  no way to install a false package.

* It's not actually available to "any normal user". You are an
  administrative user — a member of the `wheel` group.

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