On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:07 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Markus Huber wrote: > > > There is nothing wrong with that and a big advantage at a school. > > Windows boxes usually rot away within minutes, because everybody can > > install anything wherever they want, they do not need to be > > root/administrator to do that. And that's wrong. > > Caution: there is nothing special about the root-only-writable /usr/* > for compiling, installing and running stuff. I was surprised to see > Opera running on the Fedora laptop my stepson uses a few months ago... > he just downloaded the binaries, unpacked them in /home and ran them. > Similarly he has compiled .tar.gz's in /home himself and run the > executable in-place. > > You can mount /home noexec I guess, but assuming that a typical Linux > box is much better in the "root must install" respect is wrong. > true pretty much any user can install pretty much anything they want and run it locally from their home directory, but so what. It doesn't affect the system as a whole. That program he/she installs will only run as their user and since they have no rights they can not affect the system. So even if they trash their user account they don;t affect other users and you can always just recreate their account and give them a good scolding :) > -Andy > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
