On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:03:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > kov ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/chroot, /usr/sbin/pbuilder, /usr/lib/gnome-sudo/gnome-sudo-helper, PASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get > > My lord that's disgusting. Why not just start up X as root and run gnome > as root if they want to emulate windows to such a degree. > > I hope that the package does not add this line to the sudoers file for > you? No, it doesn't. > Does its documentation ask you to put that line in including the > braindead NOPASSWORD part? Nope, it doesn't do that, either. I think the operant lesson we can derive from this is: "If you care about Debian's security, ignore Gustavo Moronha Silva." -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux | venerable because they are more branden@debian.org | fruitful than the truths of little http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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