On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:53 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:16 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > >> What's the difference whether the package got > >> installed by root or via "su"? > > > > No difference. The difference is that if you're loading a GUI to do it, > > you're running 500,000 lines of code as root in an untrusted > > environment. > > > > Richard. > > Well, if you can not trust a GUI then logging in as a user won't help > either. Once that user invokes superuser powers there is no difference > between him/her and root. ---- I have no doubt that you actually believe that and I suspect that there is little that I could say that would change your mind. Perhaps you should relate the study you have given to this concept to convince us of your analysis. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
