On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:50:58PM -0400, James Laska wrote: > > = DeviceKit = > > Ever notice how the graphical disk management functionality present > during a Fedora installation is not available after you've installed > your system? > > <Enter DeviceKit on stage left> AFAICS this is the next big security disaster in the making. Something on par with this broken clock access via clock-applet or maybe even worse. It is not apparent how to prevent totally screwed defaults from taking over. The problem is that all partitions from the _fixed_ media become available for scribbling, through a "Computer" browser, for anyone with a login on a desktop. Some of these, apparently at random, are even automounted (and spill a garbage with such descriptive names like "260 MB Filesystem" all over a desktop). It looks like that the only "security" model considered is "one user per machine and preferably as root or at least with a root access". Somebody spent much too much time on Windows and never heard words like a "backup", "another installation", "limited access", etc. Expect the same "swift reaction", or rather a total lack of it, as in a clock-applet case. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
