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Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges
eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long."
Sounds like I need to upgrade to Windows 7 for some real security...
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
...all those laid off Microsoft employees already found work.
Have you tried just deploying with ClickOnce? Oh, wait, nevermind. :P
Fedora, Now With The Power Of Windows!!!!
Tired of those pesky admin privileges. Tired of using superuser. Want everyone on your system to install what they like, even from websites that say "Install Me!", why Fedora 12 is here! Come on, don't be afraid. Flush forty years of basic security principles down the toilet!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Guest users? That's good...everyone knows that Linux users don't have any guests.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Science is vulgar compared to mathematics.
I bet you're even one of those dirty experimentalists, or even worse, a chemist!
MS is hit hard because they have had similar bad ideas, combined with having hired bad developers (and getting worse). But MS is now focused on Security, and is slowly making progress. I fear that if and when they surpass *nix (Linux, BSD, OSX, and some of the smaller ones like Solaris :) ) in security, that *nix will suddenly be slammed with virus and worms. And it will appear to happen overnight, even though it will be possible openings like this that slowly turn the heads of the writers.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I'll admit, I'd much rather run as root than sudo all the damn time on a Linux box.
You can make emerge to install stuff anywhere, don't forget to add yourself to the portage group.
Too bad this isn't Gentoo and I don't have root on it.
Inch by inch.
Thank goodness for virtualization. I can keep the host system locked down and fairly pristine, yet inside the virtual environment I am a wild man with wild thoughts, eating my oatmeal without a spoon, cutting off mattress tags, and installing beta code wherever I see fit.