On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:25:58 PM CEST Iain Rae wrote: > if they've got sudo privs to install software in the system area as root > then any malicious program is going to emulate su/sudo in which case > you're rooted in both scenarios. In order to emulate su/sudo, the binary needs to have special permissions. Programs downloaded by web browsers do not get them and non-privileged users cannot grant such permissions. I just wanted to say that many users would not need sudo access at all if they were able to install software to their home directory in a way that it works out of the box. Kamil _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
