On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:18:28PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/18/2009 11:19 PM, nodata wrote: > > > > > Thanks. I have changed the title to: > > "All users get to install software on a machine they do not have the > > root password to" > > .. if the packages are signed and from a signed repository. So, you left > out the important part. Explain why this is a problem in a bit more > detail. They can install a package with a known local root exploit? They can install lots of packages are fill up all the disk space? They can install commands that the owner of the machine doesn't want? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
