matt okeson-harlow wrote:
it also comes down to this... if you are going to have people adding users, they should be people that have SOME level of trust. if you don't trust them to not INTENTIONALLY screw things up, don't give them access. write your wrapper to the best of your ability to take care of possible honest mistakes, and go from there.
It's people you trust most can do you most harm. Just check the divorce courts.
I download and run lots of software from Debian sites. Lots of DDs can harm my computers (and yours!). OTHO SCO can do my systems little harm because I rarely (==never) download and run software from SCO sites.
Let's not mention Bill's malware:-). John's rule of trust: trust whom you must, to the extent you must.I trust RH and Debian to do a reasonable job of putting together software that works more-or-less as described (when, indeed, I can find a description!), but that trust does not go to running up2date or apt-get to install fixes without me seeing them first. Even a cursory inspection gives me information to remember when something breaks.
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