Re: Local users get to play root?

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Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I do not see how that's relevant, frankly. For it to be relevant it
> would have to be true to state that, if you need root privileges to
> install signed packages, it's absolutely no problem if a signed package
> is evil. Obviously, that's not at all true. An evil 'trusted' package
> would be a Very Bad Thing in any case. Whether you need to be root to
> install a trusted package or not is entirely orthogonal, as far as I can
> see.

Really? You are talking about changing "the local administrator trusts
*this* package" to "the local administrator trusts whoever has the
signing key for Fedora to decide which packages should be installed".

-- 
Arnaud

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