Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:06:33AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500
> cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I sometimes
> > have this bizarre feeling that much of this awkwardness we have to
> > deal with -- in X certainly .. but from the linux console as well,
> > albeit to a lesser extent -- eventually boils down to the *NIX model
> > not having been designed from the ground up with security in mind.
>
> Huh?
>
> > I just cannot see why you should need something extreme such as root
> > access to install/maintain software.
>
> And let users install any malware they get across on the internet just
> because it popped up a window with "install me"?
I've longed for a distinction between packages that assume root
priveleges to run and those that do not. The latter should be
installable by any user; the former should require root permission.
To a first approximation, one could distinguish them by the SUID bit on
any of their executables.
Of course, there would have to be firther considerations -- the packages
shoulld have to come from a trusted source, for one thing, and be free
of conflicts with other packages users might be allowed to install.
-- hendrik
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