[dundee] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

[Lee Hughes]

well at least the software has to be signed, could be worse. I kinda hoping that
unix security is good enough for users to install non-root programs, and the system
be a fairly stable state, it's not windows, 'I am root all the time syndrome', which really
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.

allowing users to introduce runnable code on to a system is gotta be a bad thing, unless
the system has a mechanism to isolate such code  (read virtual machine).

'look ma, i just installed apache as a non root user!'

heheheeeh





--- On Thu, 19/11/09, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

From: Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>
Subject: Re: [dundee] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses
To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Date: Thursday, 19 November, 2009, 21:34

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:29 +0000, Robert Ladyman wrote:

> Oh dear...
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/

Bit of a misleading over the top headline, oh well..

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