On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:23 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > I'm not sure how this is 'surprise root'. IT will only allow installs > of > pkgs signed with a key you trust from a repo you've setup. > > which pretty much means: if the admin trusts the repo, then it is > okay. > > if the admin doesn't trust the repo it should NOT be on the box and > enabled b/c an untrusted repo can nuke your entire world. I may trust the repo, that doesn't mean I want to allow installation of any package that happens to live on that repo. The problem is the *Default* not the fact that you can consciously allow users to update without a password. On some machines I allow that no problem cause I explained the users how to do things, on some others not, and most importantly I do that per user. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
