On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:01:43AM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > As others have said, your basic idea is a security risk. You should > really re-think your idea. I don't think it really is much of one, provided that your package-installing application (pup, in this case) properly validates package signatures. Only valid Fedora packages could be installed. This is a *management* nightmare for systems where there's more than just one user who is also the system admin, but otherwise should be fundametnally okay. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>