Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The thing is, we really need to be able to boot a kernel in qemu as > non-root, and carrying around a separately compiled or packaged kernel > is in nobody's interest. > > I'm fairly sure this won't be the only application to break. We found > it first because we are compiling and booting Rawhide in qemu > virtually daily (so we tend to find any kernel or qemu problems very > quickly -- it's the bain of my life). But I bet others will be > needing to read those files. > > Also, I do think this smacks a bit of security through obscurity .. > after all, the files that are being 'protected' here are being carried > on a hundred or more mirror sites. It's the worst-kept secret :-) Uhm, indeed, making publicly available files non-readable is really useless. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel