<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">well at least the software has to be signed, could be worse. I kinda hoping that<br>unix security is good enough for users to install non-root programs, and the system<br>be a fairly stable state, it's not windows, 'I am root all the time syndrome', which really<br>gets those windows system into a mess. However, signed code doesn't mean much, it can still blow up and crash your system or have nasty side effects.<br><br>allowing users to introduce runnable code on to a system is gotta be a bad thing, unless<br>the system has a mechanism to isolate such code (read virtual machine).<br><br>'look ma, i just installed apache as a non root user!'<br><br>heheheeeh<br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 19/11/09, Andrew Clayton <i><andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses<br>To: dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Thursday, 19 November, 2009, 21:34<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:29 +0000, Robert Ladyman wrote:<br><br>> Oh dear...<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/</a><br><br>Bit of a misleading over the top headline, oh well..<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundeelug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundeelug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee"
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