On Monday 09 March 2009 14:48, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Login programs are becoming a lot larger, lots of software needs to be > run in order to allow "Assisted Technologies". Most of this software > can be executed by a non logged in user, so a bug in the software could > compromise the system. Allowing the login program to manipulate the > boot environment might allow a slightly compromised login program to > turn off security options like SELinux, or change other kernel options. > > All this for arguable value. I agree completely. The only thing that is a mystery for me is what is kdm exactly trying to do with grub here? What does a login manager has in common with the bootloader? Though I didn't do any research to find out... :-) Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
