Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges 502
eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long."
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like I need to upgrade to Windows 7 for some real security...
Glad to see... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:User-level package manager (Score:3, Funny)
YAY!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Fedora, Now With The Power Of Windows!!!!
Tired of those pesky admin privileges. Tired of using superuser. Want everyone on your system to install what they like, even from websites that say "Install Me!", why Fedora 12 is here! Come on, don't be afraid. Flush forty years of basic security principles down the toilet!
Re:This makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Developers vs. Sysadmins (Score:3, Funny)
Science is vulgar compared to mathematics.
I bet you're even one of those dirty experimentalists, or even worse, a chemist!
You laugh, but.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This makes sense (Score:3, Funny)
Re:User-level package manager (Score:3, Funny)
You can make emerge to install stuff anywhere, don't forget to add yourself to the portage group.
Too bad this isn't Gentoo and I don't have root on it.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not even sure who to ROOT for anymore.
Haha, that was so terrible, please don't mod me funny.
Re:Potential worm exploit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You laugh, but.... (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, ok, I'll fix that...
There! Are you happy? I had to take that letter from elewhere!
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I, unlike you, feel no shame.
Re:Developers vs. Sysadmins (Score:5, Funny)
Thank goodness for virtualization. I can keep the host system locked down and fairly pristine, yet inside the virtual environment I am a wild man with wild thoughts, eating my oatmeal without a spoon, cutting off mattress tags, and installing beta code wherever I see fit.