RE: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Richard Hughes wrote:
> Please read http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
> 
> The GTK developers say "do not run GUI code as root". They are the ones
> who write the GUI code. As for gnome-packagekit, _I_ wrote the code.

That stuff affects setuid, i.e. where you're giving out blanket permission
to *anyone* to run code as root.

What we're talking about in this thread is somebody who knows the root
password logging in as root on their own machine and running the entire
session as root. Quite a different scenario from a security perspective.

        Kevin Kofler

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux